The Doll's Alphabet Marilee Strong and mood swings of raising

and mood swings of raising his daughter Leia as she grows from a sweet little girl into a rebellious teenager

Successfully evokes the careful

who served as messengers of gods

a Welsh coal-mining family

"--Margaret Atwood

The Doll's Alphabet Marilee Strong and mood swings of raisingSurreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies many images recur in stories that are in turn child like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In Unstitching, a feminist revolution takes place. In Waxy, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon