![]() ![]() They treat the importance of others’ inner lives as a given. Motoya’s protagonists feel quietly radical in a literary moment that seems particularly interested in unpacking various forms of narcissism. ![]() The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion-of both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens. The reader wonders: Am I the strange one?. This normalization gives the stories their irony and their sense of being just a bit off, like a lingering scent of formaldehyde. characters correctly identify weird behavior as weird, but they mistake out-of-bounds, supernatural weird for human, 'life’s a rich tapestry' weird. The stories are funny and creepy they have a campfire vibe, a brush of the moonless night. ![]()
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