In “Waxy,” the strange and beautiful short story that Toronto writer Camilla Grudova published last year in Granta, a female factory worker struggles to justify her existence after her Man leaves. In this dystopian realm, women labour on the line by day and care-take by night, supporting spouses who earn prize money studying Philosophy Books and taking Exams. She’s overjoyed, then, when she meets Paul, a much younger man with missing teeth and an unreliable bladder. Against all odds, our factory worker and Paul fall in love and have a baby, Waxy, whom they must hide, since Paul does not have identification papers and is therefore not registered for Exams. The Doll’s Alphabet is one of the most peculiar outings in recent memory, and among the most thrilling.

Source: thestar December 22, 2017 11:26 UTC