![]() ![]() ![]() She is, much like so many of us after the pandemic, nervously throwing herself back into the social fray. She is just re-emerging, self-aware and changed by her experience. Cat has wrestled her own demons in mental illness, to which each of her college friends reacted differently, creating uneasy circumstances for a reunion. Khaw’s protagonist, Cat, is instantly in charge of this journey with a strong voice, gorgeous descriptions with an edgy wit always thrumming beneath the surface. “But the interior didn’t smell like it’d had people here, not for a long, long time, and smelled instead like such old buildings do: green and damp and dark and hungry, hollow as a stomach that’d forgotten what it was like to eat.” ![]() You know you’re in the hands of a skilled storyteller who is going to take you on a very creepy journey. Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened TeethĬassandra Khaw’s prose (which they described in an interview as “ baroque as fuck”) grabs you firmly in the early pages of the novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth. ![]()
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