6/1/2023 0 Comments Salt Slow by Julia Armfield![]() But the book’s punchlines, while striking, can feel superficial, as in the denouement of Mantis, in which a girl turns the tables on the boy attempting to coerce her into sex at a party. Often the creepy goings-on act as a magical-realist delivery mechanism for avenging male exploitation of women’s bodies, although we can’t always tell for sure: one story, Stop Your Women’s Ears With Wax, runs on ominous hints of killings carried out by the cult-like fans of a girl band whose members perhaps aren’t human. Speckled with zoological terminology and unexpected collective nouns (“an anthology of cousins”), Salt Slow shares virtues and flaws with Daisy Johnson’s atmospheric 2016 collection Fen. ![]()
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