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.
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Author: Goto, Hiromi
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Hopeful Monsters: Stories
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2004-09-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781551521572
Category: Fiction : Short Stories (single author)
Category: Fiction : General