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    612-822-4611

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Where the Wild Ladies Are

Where the Wild Ladies Are

Matsuda, Aoko
Barton, Polly

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1593766904
ISBN13: 9781593766900
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: Oct 20 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
In this delightfully uncanny collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services--from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime (The New York Times Book Review)

A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women--who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive feminine passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company.

With Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales--shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells--and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them.

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