Gage is a peerless judge of human nature. Wry, funny, forgiving, she reminds us at times of John Barth, Katherine Anne Porter, and Sherwood Anderson. Her little Putneyville is big enough to encompass every human vice and virtue, and reading its fables and foibles, we recognize these people--and then, perhaps, we blush.
--Michael Carr, multiple best-selling editor

In today's world of collapsing economies and ecosystems, can the ageless wisdom of Aesop still apply? In her captivating new novel, The Putneyville Fables, Marianne Gage explores this question and bestows some...