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holdentwalker 's review for:
Life Ceremony
by Sayaka Murata
Life Ceremony puts author Sayaka Murata's affinity for all things gross and disturbing on full display. Now my new favourite short story collection, this book reimagines rituals, values, and traditions- everything we hold somewhat sacred.
I was not a fan of all the stories and I found some to be outside the scope of the collection, such as a story about a woman's platonic relationship with her curtain, which is randomly squeezed in between stories of the commodification of corpses and mass cannibalism. However, the stories that critique and examine, from an often philosophical standpoint, the purpose and value of human life were the most interesting to me.
These stories, such as 'A First-Rate Material' and the titular 'Life Ceremony,' were particularly fascinating in the way they provoked questions about where our social taboos originate and whether our moral compass is overtly arbitrary. Overall, very facinating.
I was not a fan of all the stories and I found some to be outside the scope of the collection, such as a story about a woman's platonic relationship with her curtain, which is randomly squeezed in between stories of the commodification of corpses and mass cannibalism. However, the stories that critique and examine, from an often philosophical standpoint, the purpose and value of human life were the most interesting to me.
These stories, such as 'A First-Rate Material' and the titular 'Life Ceremony,' were particularly fascinating in the way they provoked questions about where our social taboos originate and whether our moral compass is overtly arbitrary. Overall, very facinating.