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A review by peeled_grape
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories by Aimee Bender
3.0
Hmm. A lot of these stories are stunning, though you have to be okay with being confused with a lot of this, I think. Part One was my favorite of the three, which is strange because I tend to like stories more like those in Part Three. Many of the stories in this section seem to end right before the protagonist comes to an understanding of something. It's like the moment the story has been leading to is left just barely outside the story. What makes this writing so incredible is I still found the stories complete and satisfying. I may not have understood everything, but I also felt like I wasn't supposed to immediately get the purpose of the stories or even where they were leading.
What I didn't like: I am so tired of reading stories of girls with "daddy issues" or girls in pain who try to solve all their problems with sex. It's fine if you're using these stereotypes to mess with them or change them somehow, but this just reinforced it. This was so present in these stories. I also wasn't cheering for some of the protagonists some of the stories seemed to want me to, and that, at times, dulled what these stories could have been.
What I didn't like: I am so tired of reading stories of girls with "daddy issues" or girls in pain who try to solve all their problems with sex. It's fine if you're using these stereotypes to mess with them or change them somehow, but this just reinforced it. This was so present in these stories. I also wasn't cheering for some of the protagonists some of the stories seemed to want me to, and that, at times, dulled what these stories could have been.