The connections between them are loose, tethered by similar leads. Some stories are confident in their strangeness and ambiguity, a handful feel like promising sketches of sturdier narratives and the rest fall somewhere in between. an assured follow-up, a striking collection that peddles in the uncanny and the surreal, but it often lacks Severance’s zest. The eight wily tales mark the return of an author whose inventive debut, Severance, urgently announced her as a writer worth watching. As they move languorously through the world, observing and operating with a cool detachment, their questionable choices - stalking an ex-lover, having sex with a Yeti, living with her husband and 100 ex-boyfriends - fuel the narratives, and heighten their stakes. The women populating these stories are not merely at the center, they are the center.
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