Eight short stories by Ankalina Dahlem take you intoa fever dream of longing and loss. Where the Octopus Dreams reads like if Angela Carterhad written fairy tales while recovering from a brokenheart in a damn cold Berlin winter. This slender collection of eight interconnected storiesfollows an unnamed narrator's pursuit of a shy octopusthrough impossible waters, each tentacle leavingbehind a tale that shifts between brutal realism andshimmering fantasy. Dahlem writes with the precision of a surgeon and therecklessness of a drunk poet.
