This book was great. The premise of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Jim was awesome, and I particularly loved his love of literature. I‘ve only read an excerpt from the original story (high school required reading of “classics” written by white men a long time ago), and I liked this version so much better that I didn‘t even feel the urge to go back and compare the two. I highly recommend this one.

I thought the book was about badass women labeled “difficult.” After reading the 1st story I hesitated to continue. The author chose to start with a story about child sexual abuse, seeming to say, “If you can‘t stomach this story then just give up now.” Some trigger warnings would‘ve helped. After 4 stories I bailed for my own mental health. What made these women difficult? The common thread seemed to be “women who were screwed over by men.”

Escuché a alguien en NPR recomendar este libro y me sonó chistoso el título en inglés, y decidí leerlo. La verdad no sabía de qué se trataba ni sabía que era una colección de cuentos cortos de horror. Pero de todas maneras me gustaron los cuentos y me gustó que se habló un poco de la historia complicada de Argentina en el siglo XX. Recomiendo solo leer un cuento por día si eres una persona fácilmente afectada por la melancolía.

“Of course, that‘s what happens. When we ignore ourselves for long enough, our bodies find a way to make us listen.”

“FUCK.”

“Release the shame you feel when resting. It does not belong to you.”

“Apple put this new screen time feature on the iPhone that‘s supposed to, I don‘t know, shame me into putting down the drug they won‘t stop peddling to me??”

A great book for those who want to understand how the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII affected families in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up in Oregon, but of course never learned in school about the racist policies my state considered and/or implemented against Japanese Americans. Admittedly a little dry in parts, this meticulous family history is an important record of the harm caused by state sponsored racism. Please read!