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A review by isobelthewizard
The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
4.0
This book was delightfully horrifying. I ached for the truth within these stories, and will probably do a full Ukrainian research spiral in the wake of this book.
The book is written in short stories, all from the first perspective. Some are told by the living, some by the dead. The book divided into two halves, "The Thimble Factory" and "The Night Police." It took me a while for the common threads between the stories to shine through, but when they did I was floored. Myth and legend, monsters and men, future and past, all swirling together in a thought provoking text that grapples constantly with the terrors of history.
The book is written in short stories, all from the first perspective. Some are told by the living, some by the dead. The book divided into two halves, "The Thimble Factory" and "The Night Police." It took me a while for the common threads between the stories to shine through, but when they did I was floored. Myth and legend, monsters and men, future and past, all swirling together in a thought provoking text that grapples constantly with the terrors of history.