A review by lisawreading
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan

4.0

Wow, what a strange collection of stories. Margo Lanagan has a unique voice, creating rough-hewn characters with their own distinctive dialects, in worlds foreign yet vaguely familiar. The stories in Black Juice cover a bizarre range of subjects, including an assassination spree aimed at clowns and a family whose obligation it is to physically change the seasons. My favorite of all -- and the one that will stay with me for a long time -- is "Singing My Sister Down", which simply has to be read, even if you choose to skip the rest of the book. Overall, I'd say Black Juice is weird, often creepy, and really quite good.