The hilarious second novelfrom actress and bestselling novelist Alona Kimhi holds up a comically warped mirror to contemporary Israel, as well as the verynotion of “chick lit.” Inhabiting a dark fairy-tale version of modern life, drawingequal inspiration from Angela Carter andthe iconography of the classic horror movie, this is the story of Lily, our proudlyoverweight and romantically unlucky protagonist, who discovers a wild freedomin part through her friendship with a Russian prostitute, Ninush. This is aworld of cellulite-dissolving panties, sex change as an outlet forself-expression, and the final triumph of the titular tigress; wheremetamorphosis is the rule, and where the waking world has become a funhouseprowled by our wildest desires.