Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories

Brilliant.

Giving up on this one. I can't manage yet another Ocampo story.

There are a couple of early gems here but I'm now halfway through and I feel like I've been reading randomly generated placeholder text for the last 150 pages. Was Ocampo drunk? There's a struggle with continuity and cohesion. And while I do want to be surprised and shocked as a reader, Ocampo's surprises are just not interesting. They're not weird and quirky, they're annoying and draining.