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Garden

by Hiroko Oyamada

When the natural world unsettles the everyday

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When the natural world unsettles the everyday

Across fifteen stories, animals and overgrown or altered landscapes press into domestic life: couples contend with pregnancy, young children and in-laws, while adults return to childhood homes and encounter local traditions whose meanings remain obscure. Children, meanwhile, explore riddles in the natural world. The collection links these settings and life circumstances through encounters that disturb the sense of ordinary stability, giving nature a presence that reaches into family relationships, memory and community customs.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in short fiction about family life and changing domestic circumstances.
  • Those drawn to stories where animals, landscapes and local customs unsettle everyday routines.
  • Readers who enjoy collections moving among adults’ returns to childhood homes and children’s explorations of nature.

Themes

Nature intruding into human lifeFamily and domestic changeChildhood homes and local traditionsThe unsettling unknown

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Book overview

Crabs scurrying over a landfill. Huge tadpoles writhing in a pond. A gecko stuck to the window. A sudden invasion of ants. Nature mysteriously creeps in and overruns the realm of humans in this stunning collection of stories.

Hiroko Oyamada masterfully conveys the sense that seemingly stable and ordinary people are cracking at the edges, that a surreal encounter with an animal can change the entire course of one's life, that an obscure local ritual can have profound consequences. In these fifteen stories we find young couples navigating pregnancies, toddlers, and in-laws; men and women returning to their childhood homes to rediscover the enigmatic traditions they'd left behind; and children who plumb dreamlike riddles in the natural world.

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