Astra by Cedar Bowers

Occasionally, a writer offers the world a book so glorious that readers find it difficult to articulate just what, exactly, was so profoundly breathtaking about said book. This is my experience of Astra. Okay, so I didn’t love every story included in this linked short story collection (only ten of the eleven episodic chapters were my favourite.) I didn’t even really love the main character whose story is told eleven different ways, only one of which is from her point of view (brilliant!)