The Doll's Alphabet
Camilla Grudova · 2017
Surreal, feminist fables where sewing machines come alive and women are trapped in impossible domestic architectures. Dark and utterly original.
The case against
Grudova works from one deck of cards: sewing machines, tinned food, squalid flats, dolls, and wombs, shuffled thirteen times. By the fifth story you can predict the furniture, and the Angela Carter inheritance sits on every page in its grandmother's dress. Individually the stories unsettle; together they read like one dream re-dreamt with diminishing returns.
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