A review by khuizenga
The Skeleton's Holiday by Leonora Carrington

4.0

I knew nothing about Carrington’s personal writing style going in, and needless to say the first story knocked me over the head. These absurdist folktales are fascinating and jarring and funny and completely nonsensical in a familiar sensical way. It’s delightful finding the references to other kinds of story structures within, and also to just go along for the ride, because the story will never take you where you think it’s going. And although the writing is incredibly visual, Carrington blurs the lines with characters: is she a woman? A horse? Both at once? Are both these characters the same thing? Every time you think you are going to get a clear answer, she dodges, leaving you with beautifully weird scenes in your head with big black holes in them, the part you can’t quite comprehend. That is essentially what reading these stories feels like.