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Where the Wild Ladies Are

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A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women - who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive “feminine” passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company. 

In this collection of linked stories, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millennia-old tradition of Japanese folktales - shape-shifting 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.

©2021 Aoko Matsuda (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Accolades & Awards

World Fantasy Award
2021
Anthologies & Short Stories World Fantasy Award Short Story Fiction Genre Fiction Absurdist
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Not bad, just not my flavor. I assume I’d have liked it more if I had an interest in Asian culture

Not bad, just not my flavor

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