Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, February 2007
After encountering the variety of more (or less) fantastical characters in Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures (Anchor, 2006), it is not enough for someone to say, "Yes, humans are very willful creatures." The reader repeatedly confronts a sort of "willful" persevering essence which both struggles against and actualizes itself within characters' experiences of circumstances unfitting, unexpected, unsuccessful, or irreconcilable. . .
