Completely bizarre but highly entertaining and emotional, Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash traces the love story of Aja Kawak, his penis Bird, and his longtime love interest Iteung through the tumultous shanty town in Indonesia. Perhaps it was the translation, but the plot and writing felt stale to me, as if what was once a lively tale had been dulled to academia. Nonetheless, the plottwists at the end made me tear up.