Feminism

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0307341550 (ISBN 13: 9780307341556)

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes. The youngest of forty—a child with no name and no past—she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden—in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights—she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings. Then everything changes... and nothing changes. A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.

Dalam Sihir Perempuan, Intan Paramaditha mengolah genre horor, mitos, dan cerita-cerita lama dengan perspektif feminis. Buku ini pertama kali diterbitkan Katakita tahun 2005 dan meraih penghargaan 5 besar Khatulistiwa Literary Award (Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa). Setelah 12 tahun, Sihir Perempuan diterbitkan ulang oleh Gramedia Pustaka Utama (April 2017) dengan kemasan baru dan ilustrasi untuk tiap cerita oleh Emte. Perempuan bisa menjadi apa saja: ibu, anak, karyawati yang baik, hingga boneka porselen. Namun dalam buku yang menghadirkan 11 cerita pendek ini, peran-peran yang seharusnya nyaman justru diteror oleh lanskap kelam penuh hantu gentayangan, vampir, dan pembunuh. Di sinilah perempuan dan pengalamannya yang beriak dan berdarah terpintal dalam kegelapan. Cerita: Pemintal Kegelapan Vampir Perempuan Buta Tanpa Ibu Jari Mobil Jenazah Pintu Merah Mak Ipah dan Bunga-Bunga Misteri Polaroid Jeritan dalam Botol Sejak Porselen Berpipi Merah itu Pecah Darah Sang Ratu