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Hypnotic and beautifully written, a surreal fever dream full of disturbing details and repeating, reforming, and recursive scenes and stories. Highly experimental, the best analogy I can give is of taking a strong edible and then going to an independent theater on a hot August day to cool your body in AC while melting your brain with some super weird foreign experimental filmmaking. I‘m excited to experience more of Bae Suah‘s work.

Another book I bought because of @Tanisha_A !
Luckily I‘m easily convinced when it comes to books. This one sounds great and I‘m in love with the shiny cover🥰

I can't make any sense of this book. I can't tell what's real or what's not. I can't understand how what seems imagined or historical in one scene is real in another. I don't understand how the characters seem to switch places and identities and also move between real and imagined (they also seem lost and confused.) ↘️

I‘m not sure what I just read or how to rate it. It‘s a twisty tale with odd repetitions that make the reader question everything, but at the same time, provides no answers. I may have given up if it hadn‘t been such a short book, but then again I felt compelled to continue despite my confusion. Suah excels at creating a tangible atmosphere-you can feel the heat and humidity, and there‘s this sense of oppressive dread throughout.

Incredible. Lucid writing and translation, singular characters, and a propulsive story that pulls the rug out from under your feet. The comparison with David Lynch is apt, with recurring motifs & moving from reality to the surreal. I almost understood what was happening, but not quite. Ideas of memory & the impermanence of things, & she plays with blindness & vision. Tightly written, engaging and will give your brain a workout. #witmonth

Today was a good mail day. My latest round of #TailoredBookRecommendations from #myTBR arrived: gotta love a strong stack of #WOC authors. 💖 I hadn‘t heard of the tagged book before, but I‘m excited for all of these. I also finally received my FaeCrate Empire of Gold hangover recovery kit and I‘ll post that under a spoiler tag in a few minutes. 💖 #bookmail #bookhaul

My Women In Translation readathon TBR is up now on Books On The Go 📚📹 . #WITMonth