Prepare Her Reading Five beautifully illustrated spreads show

Five beautifully illustrated spreads show a series of friendly Australian animals hiding behind bright felt flaps

dog walking seems like a sensible choice

After withholding parts of herself for so long

Lisa Mantchev takes the concept of a magic wish and uses it to explore real world empathy

But he's three thousand miles away

Prepare Her Reading Five beautifully illustrated spreads showA collection of "elegant, original, and moving" stories "with the lyrical brilliance and bite of Sylvia Plath" set in a not so bucolic Vermont, a land of antique stores, small towns, fading farms, and young women trying to figure out marriage, motherhood, sex and their own power (Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Almost Famous Women and Birds of a Lesser Paradise). Prepare Her tells the stories of young women at the brink of discovering their own power.