Weasels in the Attic

Reviews

"Praise for Hiroko Oyamada’s previous novels:

Nothing feels fixed; everything in the book might be a hallucination." — Parul Seghal, The New York Times Book Review

"Surreal and mesmerizing." — Hilary Leichter, The New York Times

"Horrific and scary, while at the same time affirming and beautiful." — New Republic

"The acclaimed author of The Factory and The Hole returns with this new installment that might be her strongest, most memorable work yet. Just like the last two titles, Weasels in the Attic is a thin book totaling less than 100 pages...The book simmers with eerie tension and bursts with unforgettable monologues" — Yurina Yoshikawa, NPR

"As in Oyamada’s earlier novels, Weasels in the Attic lingers on the grotesqueries of everyday life with a subtle, deadpan humour." — Metropolis Japan

"Eerie, mesmeric." — Dustin Illingworth, The New York Times

"The specter of snow melting, thus freeing the narrator and his wife from the mountain home in which they’re stranded, unspools deliciously backward in this consistently surprising story from one of the brightest writers in Japan. The narrative approach surfaces both clues and questions as a spring thaw does lost items." — J. Howard Rosier, Vulture

"Weasels in the Attic, the most recent of Oyamada’s works to be translated by Boyd, released in English earlier this month, teems with tropical fish and the eponymous weasels, whose lives and deaths reveal the precariousness of parenthood and family." — Rachael Nevins, Ploughshares

"The Factory, The Hole and Weasels in the Attic...flicker between mirage and deadpan realism, and lurk in the imagination like a haunting." — Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books

"Hiroko Oyamada’s latest novel—coming on the heels of The Factory and The Hole—is a wonder of narrative economy and quiet suspense. At under 100 pages, it’s easy to tear through in a single sitting, but its taut, unsettling scenes will stay with you long after you put it aside. " — Literary Hub

"For a ‘fishy’ death, adorable but itchy weasel infestations, and a short, strange book you can devour (if you have room) in the midwinter fog, look no further than Weasels in The Attic. " — Lara Delmage, Snack Magazine