{"product_id":"lesser-known-monsters-of-the-21st-century","title":"Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 26TH ANNUAL DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2022\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeatured on CBC''s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTIME MAGAZINE''S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2022\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLITHUB BEST REVIEWED SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS 2022\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLITHUB BEST REVIEWED SCI-FI, FANTASY AND HORROR OF 2022\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe debut collection from PEN\/Hemingway Award finalist and ''propulsive storyteller'' (NYT Book Review), with stories that are by turns poignant and pulpy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the twelve unforgettable tales of \u003ci\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, as they unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Fu joins recent maestros Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Friday Black, 2018), Charles Yu (Sorry Please Thank You, 2012), and Seong-nan Ha (Bluebeard''s First Wife, 2020) in creating irrefutably fantastic fiction.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare collections that never suffers from which-one-was-that-again? syndrome. Every story here lights a flame in the memory, shining brighter as time goes by rather than dimming. Kim Fu writes with grace, wit, mischief, daring, and her own deep weird phosphorescent understanding.\" - \u003cb\u003eKevin Brockmeier, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When a collection is evocative of authors as disparate as Ray Bradbury and Stephanie Vaughn, the only possible unifier can be originality: and that''s what a reader finds in Kim Fu''s \u003ci\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e. The strangest of concepts are tempered by grounded, funny dialogue in these stories, which churn with big ideas and craftily controlled antic energy.\" - \u003cb\u003eNaben Ruthnum, author of \u003ci\u003eA Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"How I loved the cool wit of these speculative stories! Filled with wonder and wondering, they''re haunted too by loss and loneliness, their imaginative reach profoundly rooted in the human condition.\" - \u003cb\u003ePeter Ho Davies, author of \u003ci\u003eA Lie Someone Told You About Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Precise, elegant, uncanny, and mesmerizing-each story in this collection is a crystalline gem. Kim Fu''s talent is singularly inventive, her every sentence a surprise and an adventure.\" - \u003cb\u003eDanya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003eis for the adventurous reader-someone willing to walk into a story primed for cultural critique and suddenly come across a plot for murder, or to consider the dangers of sea monsters alongside those posed by twenty-first-century ennui. Each story is spectacularly smart, hybrid in genre, and bold with intention. The monsters here are not only fantastical figures brought to life in hyper-reality but also the strangest parts of the human heart. This book is as moving as it is monumental.\" - \u003cb\u003eLucy Tan, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat We Were Promised\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Kim Fu''s \u003ci\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003ecrushes the coal-dark zeitgeist between its teeth and spits out diamonds, beautiful but razor-sharp. This will be one of the best short story collections of the year.\" - \u003cb\u003eIndra Das, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Devourers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56094971428937,"sku":null,"price":12.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/20279073482740.jpg?v=1789335941","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/lesser-known-monsters-of-the-21st-century","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}