A review by abbiejay
Fen by Daisy Johnson

4.0

Fen is a collection of short stories connected by desire, hunger and love. Each is suffused with beautiful language and an element of haunting magic realism that appears to want to express feelings so deep they can’t be put into language satisfactorily. For me, the strongest story was Starver, where a girl starves herself and becomes an eel after the town drains the land. Some of the stories later in the collection aren’t as strong as that one, but overall this is an excellent and atmospheric collection.