Status Updates From Best European Fiction 2011

She says that sedentary peoples, farmers, prefer the pleasures of circular time, in which every object and event must return to its own beginning, curl back up into an embryo and repeat the process of maturation and death. This is from Flights by Olga Tokarczuk.

Which could be a sad summary for the entire trajectory of “The Ugliest Woman” in this collection. Born a circus freak; body kept in jars to shock.