Linked feminist retellings of Japanese folktales where ghostly women console, challenge, and transform the living in witty contemporary settings.
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Linked feminist retellings of Japanese folktales where ghostly women console, challenge, and transform the living in witty contemporary settings.
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"In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, 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. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Mild romantic and sensual beats, including a ghostly nightly lover
Violence & gore
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Implied past deaths of ghost characters; not gory or graphic
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Ghosts, yōkai, shapeshifters, and magical folklore central throughout
Occult / demonology
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Folklore spirits and yōkai, not real-world occult practice
Political content
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Feminist themes and witty critique of gender roles central to stories
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Societal repression of women; body-image and beauty pressures
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