![]() Accepting unhappily, accepting with regret, accepting sometimes with a half-hearted rebellion or a fight, but accepting nonetheless. The characters, or character copies, rather, as the protagonists of each story have a lot in common, are well-sketched: a girl or woman, coming to terms, and ultimately accepting, her lack of agency in the face of what can only be described as utter dystopia. Technically, the stories are excellent - I think they all hold up roughly equally well. I'd always pick it up, but with trepidation. I read it over several evenings, and by the last story the book had actually started almost physically to loom on my bedside table. ![]() ![]() This mercilessly-bleak collection grabbed my attention and held it, but it seemed to do so as if by force - reading was both enjoyable and horrifying. ![]()
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