Revenge, Ogawa

“The stories in Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales are not horror stories, as the front cover and the title of this collection might suggest. Instead, these eleven linked tales are “dark” because they are primarily concerned with those things that are traditionally kept out of the light: grief, tragedy, the desire to harm others, death, mental illness, alienation, obsession, failure, loss. Ogawa drags these disturbing subjects into the light, prying into her characters’ most private fears and desires. Her narratives are engrossing, twisting into unpredictable and peculiar shapes, and her prose is swift, unadorned, and powerful.”, Review of Revenge in the Journal

This was super interesting. Wanted to read another set of short stories after [[Fictions, Borges]]^N and [[Mythos, Fry]]^N. Each story felt like a question mark, tiptoeing the line between the real and the surreal. Some pretty disturbing themes too. I really liked how the short stories all linked to one another, but not in a satisfying, simple way.