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You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories

de Mary Rickert

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"Mary Rickert writes hard, political stories that yet encompass the gentle wisdom of the ages. Here are cruelty and love. War and regeneration. She has long been an undiscovered master of the short story and this survey collection, including new work, will open the eyes of a wide, astonished audience."--… (més)
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Full disclosure: Mary Rickert is one of my favorite authors.

For those new to Mary Rickert's work, this collection from Small Beer Press is an excellent representation of, introduction to, her eclectic style. I love Mary's work because it's all about the story and not about squishing that story to fit inside a particular (genre) box. Only reason I rated You Have Never Been Here 4 instead of 5 stars is that it contained only 3 new stories: "The Shipbuilder," "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece," and "The Mothers of Voorhisville." Now, if like me you don't read online, this collection is the first time you'll have a chance to read the latter, which alone is worth the book's purchase price.

Highly recommended for hardcore fans (like yours truly) of Rickert's and those looking for a unique voice in SFF, especially dark fantasy. Chances are, if you like Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson or Angela Slatter, you'll fall head-over-heels for Rickert's stories.

4 stars

Note: You can read "The Mothers of Voorhisville" on Tor.com.

Is it totally selfish that I'm jonesin for another novel by Mary? ( )
  flying_monkeys | Jul 12, 2017 |
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You Have Never Been Here is a collection of fantastical stories set in contemporary America's small towns and rural areas and featuring people isolated from their communities by internal grief or external prejudices.

The publisher's summary states that Rickert "writes hard, political stories that yet encompass the gentle wisdom of the ages" but it's all very Victorian in its sentiments and sensibilities. Several of the stories focus on mothers as monsters, too in love with their children to make reasonable choices. There's a thread of other retrograde politics running through as well, including anti-choice commentary and a nostalgia for simpler times.

Readers who like tea room-style ghost stories and monstrous matriarchs might like these. Personally, I'm tired of the world's miseries being encapsulated by stories of genteel terror. Somebody ought to write a creepy ghost story with a wizened ship breaker as the protagonist. ( )
  LibraryPerilous | Aug 23, 2016 |
There are short stories in ‘You Have Never Been Here’ that are unsettling and disturbing, odd and brilliant, strange and weirdly beautiful, all at the same time. All the short stories share an ever-present vibe of dark suspense and skewed reality that keeps you on edge throughout, and some of the stories are so skillfully executed in their madness that I know they will stick with me for a long time.

Rickert’s tales teem with death and ghosts and bones, love and loss and haunting imagery. There are dead children, winged children, ghost children, and children collecting bones. There are drowned women who work in coffee shops, a shoe-box full of stones that hold memories of past lives, men building boats in their backyards, a corpse painter, and a strange place that might or might not be a hospital, and a train that might or might not really be a train taking patients to that hospital.

The stories that appealed to me most were ‘Memoir of a Deer Woman’, where a woman is slowly turning into (back into?) a deer; ‘The Shipbuilder’, where a man named Quark tries to understand his own past and his abusive father (or is it really his father?); and especially ‘The Christmas Witch’.

‘The Christmas Witch’ perfectly crafted: a complex weave of witchcraft, weirdness, family, childhood, grief, fear, and loss; with a child at its center who is just as complicate and ornery and powerful and strange as real children can be.

This is a strange and often wonderful collection of stories, even though there are a couple of tales (‘Holiday’ and ‘The Chambered Fruit’ come to mind) that I found so unsettling that they were almost difficult to read. That said, I have a feeling that different readers will find different tales to be the most unsettling.

If you’re into twisted tales that veer off into suspense and even a dab of restrained horror, then this is a book for you. ( )
  MariaHaskins | Dec 10, 2015 |
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This book is a compilation of different stories. I won this on Early Reviewers, and had no idea what it was about.

I just read the first story (Memoir of a Deer Woman), I'm not really sure how I feel about it. On one hand, I didn't like the writing style of this story, but on the other hand, when you finished the story it had a deeper meaning than at first glance. I think the symbolism was a little hard to follow all the time, and made the story a little convoluted for me.

I'll try the next story, but based off the first story, I'm not sure about this book...

I read the next story: Journey into the Kingdom, and I found this story much more interesting and enthralling. Very interesting. ( )
  MinDea | Nov 19, 2015 |
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These stories are absolutely wonderful - eerie and unsettling, even upsetting at times, but moving glimpses at a world not entirely our own. Rickert uses an amazing combination of supernatural and deeply realistic fears, such as in "The Chambered Fruit," a Persephone story from the point of view of Demeter, about the horror of losing a child and the horror of having her back again; or in "Journey into the Kingdom," in which a young man falls in love with the fantastical young woman in a story, which may or may not be the same person as the young woman who wrote the story. It's hard to pick a favorite, but "The Mothers of Voorhisville" and "The Christmas Witch" both hit me where I live. ( )
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