This is an unusual little collection of short stories. Her writing has the feel of other canadian women short story writers (Alice Munro, Carol Shields) but the characters and plot lines are very "out there" in many of the stories. For example: the young female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home; the two headed man who commits murder by cutting off one of his heads. There are also some rather gruesome gothic stories, like the one where the child's head is lacerated by an overhead fan.
What strikes me is that Goudy was both willing and able to let her imagination wander into these sometimes extreme, sometimes sordid, always way off centre lives and universes.
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