Description
Angels, monsters, and bees. Birdwatchers, emperors, and prison wardens. These and more populate the twenty-two new and old stories collected here in her debut short story collection. From early innovative work such as “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” to recent pieces like “Small Monsters,” E. Lily Yu’s fiction ranges across forms and tones.
Collecting stories from across her career alongside brand-new pieces, Jewel Box rings with stories of delight and tales of tremendous weight. At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, this collection sings, as the oldest stories do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world.
A luminous collection of short fiction by E. Lily Yu, Jewel Box showcases incandescent stories from a master of language that reflect and refract the sharp intimacies of our world, burning brilliantly against the dark.
Endorsements
Winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.