Asja Bakić

A debut story collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the former Eastern Bloc.

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Suka!! Asja Bakić definitely sits together with Bora Chung, Budi Darma and the likes (at the end of the table maybe, but still!). Her short stories have that unsettling vibe and eerie random twists with lots of tasteful creativity. It reminds me a bit of Cursed Bunny in that sense, but with a naughtier, slightly more playful dystopian/post-apocalyptic edges, and sans the body horror. Each story is a good stand alone but they're quite cohesive as a whole too, making this a solid anthology in the same tune. Some of the stories aren't that.. well executed? But I still enjoy this a lot <3

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