This book is a collection of three short stories, described on the back cover as “haunting and lyrical”, however I would describe them as just plain weird.
The first and titular story, A Record of a Night Too Brief, is a series of dream like events, as a woman experiences a night that seemingly never ends. Each event is disorienting and hard to follow, but there was some sense of a loose story running through in alternative chapters, which just made it more surreal and bizarre.
The second story, “Missing”, and third story “A Snake Stepped On” are, in comparison, much more straight forward. In Missing, traditions dictate life while girls family members disappear. In A Snake [...] a woman steps on a snake in a park- which it uses as an invitation to move in to her apartment where it attempts to invite her to the snake world in more and more intense and violent ways.
In all honesty, I feel like this is like someone read Alice in wonderland, got high, and decided to write their own surreal stories. I struggled to enjoy the stories, and only kept reading because I thought they might make sense when they finished (they didn’t), and it was only a short book.