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readingtrying82's review
4.0
Short story collections are hard to rate. This one was very uneven.
The First story was vivid and great. The middle four were ok and quite forgettable.
The last, longest, and title story was disturbing in a good way. Initially it seemed like a simple story about family, but somehow a horrific dread [partly the heavy shadow of world war two] began to seep into everything until by the end it felt like a horror story.
I felt like I missed a lot in the final story [partly cultural], but it got under my skin and did work in my unconscious. Something good literature can do…….disturb us out of our comfort zones.
The First story was vivid and great. The middle four were ok and quite forgettable.
The last, longest, and title story was disturbing in a good way. Initially it seemed like a simple story about family, but somehow a horrific dread [partly the heavy shadow of world war two] began to seep into everything until by the end it felt like a horror story.
I felt like I missed a lot in the final story [partly cultural], but it got under my skin and did work in my unconscious. Something good literature can do…….disturb us out of our comfort zones.
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