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Dolls, mirrors, tinned foods, malfunctioning bodies-the seemingly banal quickly turns unsettling in this debut story collection. A woman laments having to send her children to daycare before turning into a wolf and eating them both in "The Mouse Queen." "Waxy" explores a dystopian world where failure to register for exams can result in blackmail. And in "Unstitching," a woman unstitches her own body to reveal her new form, which resembles a sewing machine.
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"That I cannot say what all these stories are about is a testament to their worth. They have been haunting me for days now. They have their own, highly distinct flavour, and the inevitability of uncomfortable dreams."
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
"This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque."
Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird
"Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual world-a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along."
Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?