. . . . . . . . "The title of Hopeful Monsters refers to genetically abnormal organisms that naturally adapt to their environments. In Hiromi Goto's quietly devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are women confounded by familial duty and the ghosts of their past. As mothers, daughters, wives, and \"stinky girls,\" they are the walking woundeda mother terrified by a newborn daughter who bears a tail; a woman who cannot breast-feed without pain; three generations of women who dream of lives that are not their own. But their wills are a force of nature unto themselves, and their struggles f."@en . "Fiction" . "Hopeful Monsters Stories"@en . "Hopeful monsters : stories" . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . . . . "Hopeful monsters stories" . . "Hopeful monsters" . "FICTION / General" . .