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Great and wonky set of short stories about madness and insanity and how people can spiral. Thanks for the arc

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When I read the description of this book, I was immediately excited and much to my delight it was everything I hoped it would be and then some! I absolutely devoured it, once I started I just couldn't put it down and once I turned the final page the last story had me staring at the wall for a solid 20 minutes just processing it. The stories seem deceptively short and simple, almost minimalist at times, but they linger with a surprising staying power and demand that you sit with them and pick them apart in a particularly unflinching way.

The prose is smooth and Okonkwo's literary skills come across a polished and fine tuned and I'm a sucker for a nice prose so this one delivered the proverbial goods on that front.

This book isn't marketed as horror but I suspect a couple of the stories would appeal to fans of a more subtle and psychological form of horror (there are few things more horrifying than the human mind after all).

Long story short, A Kind of Madness was absolutely delightful.

Many thanks to Tin House Books for providing me a digital review copy of this book.

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