A review by elenafrancesca
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

4.0

As with any short story collection, some of the stories are better than others. I really enjoyed the controlled chaos in the majority of these stories. Murata has a beautiful way of making sense of the senseless and using bizarre scenarios to demonstrate the personal and interpersonal struggles of the lonely, isolated and the distressed. People desperate to fit in but unsure why they feel this way, either breaking themselves to conform or forced into non-conformity.