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Stone Tree by Gyrðir Elíasson, Victoria Cribb

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4.0

When I read this book the first time in 2021, I gave it three stars. But I was compelled to come back and change it to a 4. I’m not sure what to call this prose works… they aren’t conventionally short stories, maybe flash fiction is the best term, but then again, they have a quality that might be alienating should they find themselves on the same shelf as, say, Lydia Davis. There’s a new degree of imagination and the uncanny at work here. Simply put Stone Tree’s pieces are too memorable and original to just be given three stars.
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