A review by peeled_grape
The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt

4.0

I don't have particularly strong feelings about this collection, but it was well done. "The Story Of Of" was by far the best story in this collection. I am obsessed with its form and its ending and how it finishes the collection (which begins with a story called "The Story Of," which is both very different but, plot-wise, similar, which is a very cool and very smart thing to do). "Beast" was my second favorite, and "A Love Story" my third. These are stories about relationships and motherhood and what happens when either goes wrong. A woman turns into a deer, a story procreates itself by dividing, a woman kicks her husband out for no reason

and only realizes what she's done eight months later

. These are very strange and bizarre stories, and I think they work best together.