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Wow. This is an incredibly powerful collection, with fierce feminist undertones, overtones, and other tones, but it’s also very sad.
The Husband Stitch confused me. I was left feeling profoundly moved but also disturbed, and not completely sure why I felt either emotion. (Well, some disturbing parts (view spoiler) ...more
Jan 21, 2018
s_evan
rated it
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Carmen Maria Machado's facility with language is jaw-dropping and is what made me love this book of short stories (along with having female same-sex relationships), but they are eerie (creepy?) in a way that is not always appealing - to me. I went to a reading of hers and it is clear that many people are drawn to this quality in her work, and it definitely gets under your skin, which shows her talent in writing raw, sometimes lovely, descriptive prose. I am enthralled by her skill and cannot wai
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Lots of straddling in this book.
I really enjoyed these creative and unsettling stories. I read them after I read _In the Dream House_ and kind of recognized some of the unease, dis-ease from the memoir in a couple of the stories. I loved the first one especially--so haunting. And the last. And the one about Law and Order SVU, even though it was so long I could not read it in one sitting.
Creepy and satisfying.
Nov 10, 2017
Felicia
marked it as to-read
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dark-disturbing-babies
4.5 stars
Oct 27, 2021
Eunice
rated it
really liked it
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