Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Fu, Kim A TIME Top 10 Fiction Book of 2022 An NPR, Book Riot, Chicago Public Library, Tor.com, South China Morning Post, Ms. Magazine, and Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2022 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Prize Winner & Longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize A BuzzFeed, WIRED, LitHub, ALTA, and PureWow Best Book of Winter "The strange and wonderful define Kim Fu’s story collection, where the line between fantasy and reality fades in and out, elusive and beckoning." —The New York Times Book Review In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, 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