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A strange and absolutely wonderful collection of short stories, unlike anything you are likely to ever read. These stories resonate, they sing, metaphorically, as they broach topics like crippling anxiety, the insecurities of motherhood, chronic illness and our destruction of the environment, all couched in stories of missing organs and limbs, weird biological transformations, plastic eating people, reality shows, terrifying pandemics, marketing algorithms and sinister rogue technology.

A masterpiece of storytelling, these are stories that cannot help but remind us of our feeble vulnerabilities, in the face of the terrifying and unknown changes we are setting in motion to our environment, our culture, and the world our children will inhabit. Wildfires, mounting garbage, disappearing bees, — the protagonists here are exposed to it all. Wives cling to husbands as mixed up and afraid as they are. Not to mention unsure of what is real, and what is actually manufactured, as they are secretly filmed, their lives made into entertainment, or they become the victims of strange global and disturbing conspiracies.

No topic too strange, no subject too bizarre, this brilliant and sweeping testament to our times is a collection of remarkable stories this reader will no doubt find the time to revisit.

A great big thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.