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motherhorror's review against another edition
4.0
As the title suggests, these stories are about Southeast Asian women breaking down societal and cultural expectations. I enjoyed the themes of parental pressure, love and loss, motherhood, and self-actualization/identity. The beauty of this collection is in the diversity of the voices and the individuality and uniqueness of each story coming together in one book.
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findingmontauk1's review against another edition
4.0
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women combines Asian women and horror in a dark and beautifully haunting way. I believe every group of people has their own "outsider" experiences and feelings... Asian women have had stereotypes of objectification, sexualization, depersonalization, submission, and more. This anthology explores all of those negative classifications and translates them into some brilliant stories. The anger and pain that Asian women carry, and have carried, finds itself in these pages. These stories are inspired by so many things: family, the future, folklore, food, legends, love, revenge, and so on. We see powerful Asian women in this book - and women I think the world should see more of, too! This is an anthology that will resonate with so many... and will need proper time to digest. It has a lot of important messages that need to be heard!
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