A review by saigegub04
Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas by Joyce Carol Oates

3.25

wednesday. there was something captivating and enjoyable in each story, but they never went beyond being simply entertaining stories. reads like a precursor to a lot of what is popular now: the anxiety of being woman in someone else's space, men as vaguely menacing entities, creeping discomfort, dreamlike prose that digresses as the character loses her grip on reality. enjoyable but nothing that sticks. I really liked the weird aunts in the first story, they reminded me of Gormenghast.