Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of 'The Tiger's Wife'

Jeffrey Brown talks to Tea Obreht, author of the novel, "The Tiger's Wife." More

The horrors of the Balkan War and strange encounters with a "deathless man"; the love between a woman and her dying grandfather; the magical story of a tiger terrorizing a European village. This mix of realism and fantasy is all part of "The Tiger's Wife," the new, first novel by Tea Obreht, a 25-year-old writer who was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States at age 12.

AIR DATE 4/1/11