I’m going to have to read this one again, because it was enjoyable and perplexing.

Sort of reminds me of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, in that most of these stories seem to be about completely impossible and disturbing physical events. A man’s body falls apart, piece by piece. A woman starts growing teeth all over her body. Another woman has a crush on her teenaged lawnboy, and swallows him whole and alive.

I’m tempted to see deeper meanings in all of these transformations, of course, but the way the stories are written, it’s also tempting to take them at face value. They’re so concrete! I can imagine, physically, what it must feel like to have teeth errupting all over your body. Yet there definitely seems to be a deeper metaphor involved in each.

Fascinating, disturbing, funny, funny, funny.