I confess I was hoping all of the stories would have the same haunted fabulist flavor as “Who Will Greet You at Home”, which I read separately first. I confess I was hoping all of the stories would have the same haunted fabulist flavor as “Who Will Greet You at Home”, which I read separately first. I was slightly disappointed that only a few did, but I liked the mix of magical realism, science fiction, folk tale, surrealism, and realism. All of them were stellar - inventive and captivating. Some shades of Octavia Butler, Carmen Maria Machado, Yaa Gyasi, and Kurt Vonnegut. “How does she make these stories so distilled and spacious at the same time?” - Aimee Bender...more
I don’t know how to rate this. If I hadn’t known the year this was written it would have seemed like a parody - it was morbidly comical to me. Like anI don’t know how to rate this. If I hadn’t known the year this was written it would have seemed like a parody - it was morbidly comical to me. Like an Edward Gorey drawing. ...more