Margaret Harmon has a new collection of original fables, "The Genie Who Had Wishes of his Own: 21st-Century Fables." Twenty-two brand new heroes, villains, and earnest strivers go after health, love, and fulfillment. These are fables we read when the children are asleep. * Idealistic architect Zoe, in "One Piece of Perfection," creates a building that might heal the Earth . . . if she can protect it from the people living in it. * Health-food expert Myrna decides to rescue her husband from a nutritional wasteland in "The Woman Who Loved Her Husband." But Stanley's a big man who likes ice...
Margaret Harmon has a new collection of original fables, "The Genie Who Had Wishes of his Own: 21st-Century Fables." Twenty-two brand new heroes, vill...