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Fen
by Daisy Johnson
This intertwined collection of stories from fen land is a heartbreaking love letter to a land of blood and water. The harsh landscape of the fens takes everyone as prisoners, beautifully shown in Blood Rites, where female vampires consume the men, and become them.
The stories in this collection are peeking out of eachother, a barmaid here, is the protaganist there. The stories of a starving girl and a house in love being told by a violent brother in three parts. And it's all so heavy and filled with blood, water and darkness that consumes and devours everyone, turning them into the landscape. Into fish and foxes, birds and houses. Babies molded from the mud, men called back from the dead and women jumping ship to sleep with the fish.
The language is extraordinary, drenched in metaphores and blood, fairy tales and the violence of ancient landscapes. Daisy Johnson is a dream, and I'd ready anything she writes.
The stories in this collection are peeking out of eachother, a barmaid here, is the protaganist there. The stories of a starving girl and a house in love being told by a violent brother in three parts. And it's all so heavy and filled with blood, water and darkness that consumes and devours everyone, turning them into the landscape. Into fish and foxes, birds and houses. Babies molded from the mud, men called back from the dead and women jumping ship to sleep with the fish.
The language is extraordinary, drenched in metaphores and blood, fairy tales and the violence of ancient landscapes. Daisy Johnson is a dream, and I'd ready anything she writes.