If I Told You OnceThe astonishing Orange Prize shortlisted debut from the author of Flying Leap and Nice Big American Baby. This is a truly strange and striking tale that begins in the deep, and deeply magical, European forest, in the world depicted in Chagalls paintings and Grimms Fairy Tales, and proceeds to tell the story of four generations of women from one fated family. Budnitz builds her book with wit and art somewhere in the gaps between magic realism, family