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Loading... Woodwormby Layla Martínez
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  spiritedstardust | Dec 24, 2024 |   The writing and prose in this was beautiful. I had a little trouble at first keeping up with the perspective shifts, but it was really well written and paced. (  ) eboods | Oct 22, 2024 | This is an interesting and creepy look at family, class, dreams, jealousy, envy, and revenge. But who is that revenge truly punishing? The endpapers of this edition (possibly from the original edition?) are beautiful and fascinating. Those drawings and the imagery of the text made me think of both Patrick DeWitt’s Under Major Domo Minor and Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan—even though they are totally different, both also feature interesting and creepy interior spaces and the people who live in them. (  ) Dreesie | Jun 29, 2024 | no reviews | add a review
The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can't leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice. In this lush translation by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott, Layla Martinez's eerie debut novel is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun. Described by Mariana Enriquez as "a house of women and shadows, built from poetry and revenge," this vision of a broken family in our unjust world places power in the hands of the eccentric, the radical, and the desperate. No library descriptions found. |
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Generations of angry women stuck in a house filled with their hatred of the men whose bones it’s built on.
There’s themes of income inequality, feeling trapped & domestic abuse. It was a bit “fever-dreamy” for me and I didn’t care about any of the characters in it. (