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I've expressed my reservations with the "darksome" before. But I was hoping for a palate cleanser after two disappointing outings with Shirley Jackson 2020 shortlist nominees.Timothy Dodd's opening "Dauda's Return" certainly did the trick. The narrator's voice is nicely executed, and the author wastes no time kicking things off: She arrived quite dead in December. Thin. Gaunt. Still with her thick crop of blonde hair, but now sort of dried up, left to slide across her skull down onto her bony sh...
Please forgive me for quoting so much above of this remarkable story, but I trust these choices of mine will enhance your own experience of the work itself, and to triangulate your own choices of wordings from it so as to dreamcatch or hawl its thus grafted essence, then, enhancing your own experience of the whole wonderful book, too, a book’s gestalt with which this work accidentally and/or magically and/or editorially resonates.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is...