A review by kangaruthie
The Rock Eaters: Stories by Brenda Peynado

4.0

This is a very unique collection of short stories, which use fantasy, sci-fi, and magical realism to comment on the plights of human society. For example, my favorite story used an alien invasion on Earth as a metaphor for immigration. I really loved a few stories in this book, but many of them were pretty bizarre and left me wondering what the point was. The collection on the whole is also very dark - each story dealt with heavy subject matters and did not provide any reprieve.