There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

This should be right up my alley: dark fairy tales and short stories with fantasy/fairy tale overtones. But it doesn’t work for me. Part of it may be the emphasis on allegory (not my thing, I’m finding); part may be the unrelentingly bleak Russian setting. Maybe not my thing, also, I guess.

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