If there is one thing you should know about me as a reader it's that I am always up for a fairytale or mythological retelling. So, when I saw this book being promoted as a "collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales", I knew that I had to read and review this title. Where the Wild Ladies Are is made up of several short stories that eventually interweave with each other as you get further along in the book. It was pretty clever of Matsuda, the author, to make all of the stories set in the same world and it definitely added positively to the reading experience. My one complaint about this story was that the original folktale summaries were all at the end of the book. I wish that I had either known this so I could flip back and forth after reading each story or that they had come directly after the retelling. As someone who is not familiar with Japanese folktales, I didn't really understand where each story came from until I stumbled upon the summaries at the end. Overall, I would recommend this title. It is important to read books set in countries that you do not live in as it expands your knowledge of other cultures.
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(I received a digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed above are my own.)