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Where the Wild Ladies Are Book Review by Rebekah Villon
All ghost stories are connected. I mean, every culture builds a ghost mythos that describes their undead in terms of who they are, what they want, and what they are capable of. All ghosts inhabit the in-between realm, moving between their world and ours, and every ghost story is just one glimpse into that larger, connected, continuous world. In Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda unfolds
As you read further into the book, however, you
that world of ghosts, story after story. Each story
realize that this isn’t simply a series of short
begins with a brief paragraph explaining the
stories. Some characters make a new appearance
original Japanese ghost story, and then she writes
in a different context. Some places are revisited
a modern retelling, reflection, or elaboration of
by different people for different reasons. You
that myth, often reinventing the characters as
realize that Matsuda is telling a single overlapping,
modern men and women, living lives tinged with the
complex,
supernatural.
viewpoints and perspectives.
interconnected
story,
from
various