Bridegroom Was a Dog Mieko Kawakami and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian are all impossible to imagine without Neider's Kid having first blazed the trail

all straight lines for a xylophone

And an epic game of tic-tac-toe

Thanks to a last-minute goal

and write myself new

Bridegroom Was a Dog Mieko Kawakami and Cormac McCarthy's Blood MeridianMasterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a fast moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka. The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with a schoolteacher telling a fable to her students. In the fable, a princess promises her hand in marriage