It's an extraordinary piece of work, but then so are all the stories collected here. My favorite of the bunch, "Thick Water," is a remarkably sinister tale of suspicion and paranoia among human explorers on an alien world, in which all of the explorers but one are transforming. There's a lot of sly humor to be found in these stories-a woman buys a fish at the supermarket only to discover it's still alive and can grant her three wishes an officer worker notices she's gone bald and that a colleague who's after her job has come to work wearing her hair a vegetarian succeeds in bringing supermarket meat back to life, Frankenstein-style-but there's a darker side to them, too, one that often borders on the horrific. Each one takes a recognizable character in a recognizable setting but follows the situation through to an absurd, dreamlike extreme. Eleanor has no time for Stan and his shenanigans, because she finds herself helping another coven locate a missing witch which she thinks is mysteriously linked to the shortage of water in Liberty.Heuler's collection gathers fifteen prime examples of her hallmark surrealist stories. A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and 'shooting' people. But being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she's already been placed under 'house arrest' with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor - a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging.
A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.-In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country.
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