Where the Wild Ladies Are

✍ Scribed by Barton, Polly;Matsuda, Aoko

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Catapult
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Edition: 3
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1593766912

✦ Synopsis

In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services --from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime.

A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women--who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive "feminine" passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company.

In this witty and exuberant...

✦ Subjects

Electronic books