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But Hopeful Monsters isn't simply another catalog of cultural disconnections and domestic crises. Instead, its characters find secret paths through the foreign landscapes of their lives, paths that lead to moments of, if not understanding, then at least recognition, and perhaps even reconciliation. The characters' journeys are mirrored in Goto's narrative style. The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. They end not with resolution or closure, but with the opening of possibilities, of a shift from one life to another, from dream to reality. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. --Peter Darbyshire
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—Quill & Quire (Quill & Quire )
Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautiful hand. The stories' often weird endings take Margaret Atwood's technological fictions several steps closer to the macabre into a sort of "Twilight Zone" of postmodern family life that mostly features postfeminist women at their fickle witchiest.
—The Multicultural Review (Multicultural Review )
The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time.
—amazon.ca (amazon.ca )
If you loved Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, you'll love this book...
—The Calgary Herald (Calgary Herald )
The writing is sleek in its economy but pointed in its observation. Yet often a metaphor will bloom into something sublimely sensual. Goto knows how to take her characters into hard places. You won't like all of them—but you won't want to leave them alone. Gorgeous.
—Now Magazine (NOW Magazine )
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