The color master

stories

323 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-4104-6511-5
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OCLC Number:
857234477

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Stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family -- while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds.

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Review of 'The Color Master' on 'Goodreads'

I think a 3.5 I’m rounding down.

My favorites were The Red Ribbon, Faces, and Lemonade. Lemonade was my absolute favorite despite it being from the perspective of a teen. It gets into the mind of a self-conscious, nervous teen girl which was funny sad.

But most of these were quite forgettable and meh to me unfortunately. I skipped much of Bad Return and didn’t even finish the last story because I cared so little in those cases. Most collections from one author don’t have quite so much range of reaction from me, so this is a weird one.

I liked enough here to want to try something else by the author, though.

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Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Fiction