Menu of The Day (18 April 2021): Where The Wild Ladies Are, a book by Aoko Matsuda

 Where The Wild Ladies Are

 

 

Some reviews of this beautiful and enchanting book say it is a feminist one. Nope.

Sorry reviewers but if you really think that it is such, you are twice wrong. First it is not feminist more than any other book (or collection of short stories as this one) where protagonists are females (which is absolutely normal, world is 50/50, right?), then you have misunderstood the concept of feminism.

This books is an absurdist book made perfectly reasonable, in a country where things can be weird or unusual (to foreigners), where spirits are not by default evil demons and instead are in everything, from a missing sandal to nature. This books tell you stories, some very short, some longer, some out of Japanese folktale tradition, some straight out of writer creativity.

 

 

 

Does she mean something with each? Sometimes yes, sometimes not, other probably. It is up to you, reader to get what you want.
Tales are tales, like kids with fairy tales, these are no different. Enjoy a book we have literally devoured.

Fully appreciated, thanks whoever suggested this!