Weird. Creepy. Disturbing. All words I’d use to describe one story or another in this collection. The stand out story is of course the titular Life Ceremony, which aside from the obvious, is a discussion on social norms and doing what we do because we’re told to by law, government or tradition. The opening story, A First-Rate Material also explores this from a slightly different angle. 
As per Muratas other work she subverts social normals and explores human contradictions