“These tales are warped and reinvented from traditional Japanese ghost stories, and they go barreling through hair salons and domestic kitchens and modern factories. Whether you’ll identify more closely with the mortals or the ghosts is an open question.”

Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton, is featured on this list of “19 Books We’re Excited to Read This Fall” by Vulture.

See the full list here.