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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Goto reminds us that we are creatures of family and food and blood. She takes the mundane and the fantastic and the fearsome and delightful and touching and unlovely and gives them all to us transubstantiated into family and food and blood. Without that patina rubbed deep into our skins, we are mere colliding bodies, which is reflected in the scenarios Goto gives us--a woman and her mom trekking through the snow to reach a hot springs; a woman whose monstrous form and horrifying odour hide something amazing and transformational as she takes a walk to the mall; a woman who's having trouble with breastfeeding; a woman who has a baby, only something's wrong. Each of these scenarios gets broken open by HAPPENINGS and only held together, like stitches helping a burst body heal after childbirth, by the eternal return of family, food and blood like a stifling, sustaining syllogism. And also the UNCANNY. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The unbearable voices of mythic manatees, the cry of the phoenix, the whispers of kappa lovers beside a gurgling stream. The voice of the moon that is ever turned away from our gaze, the song of suns colliding. The sounds which permeate from my skin on such a level of intensity that mortal senses recoil, deflect beauty into ugliness as a way of coping. And my joy. Such incredible joy. The hairs on my arms stand electric, the static energy and the heat amplifies my smell/sound with such exponential dizzying intensity, that the plastic which surrounds me bursts apart, falls away from my being like an artificial cocoon. I hover, twenty feet in the air. The title of Hopeful Monsters refers to genetically abnormal organisms that naturally adapt to their environments. In Hiromi Goto's quietly devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are women confounded by familial duty and the ghosts of their past. As mothers, daughters, wives, and "stinky girls," they are the walking wounded--a mother terrified by a newborn daughter who bears a tail; a woman who cannot breast-feed without pain; three generations of women who dream of lives that are not their own. But their wills are a force of nature unto themselves, and their struggles for selfhood are imbued with the light of myth and magic-realism. In these tales of domestic crises and cultural dissonance, Goto makes the familiar seem strange, and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd, the sublime, even the horrific. Alternately poignant and noisy, these stories establish Hiromi Goto's gift for short fiction that is as shining as her acclaimed novels. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I would recommend this to friends who like to tackle very complex fiction and like a challenge but I'd suggest reading one story at a time and waiting for that story to process before moving on. ( )