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Isabel Yap’s debut collection
Never Have I Ever offers a wide variety of stories. They range from the definitely horrific “Good Girls” (The Retreat is a place intended to reform bad girls; whether it works on its young inmates is, in general, an open question, but it definitely doesn’t work for the monstrous Kaye) to the science fiction of “Milagroso”. (In the near future, manufactured food is tasty and both more affordable and more nutritional than the real thing. Still, people yearn for the natural and thrill when, with an annual miracle, a saint allows a taste of the old.) In the moving “Cup of Salt Tears”, Makino, who grieves for her terminally ill husband, was saved from drowning as a child by a kappa (a Japanese river monster that can be benign). Now her husband is dying, and the kappa reappears to assert his love for her. This is a modern fairy tale about bargains. “Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez?”, set in a Filipino girl’s school, is a c