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. 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. The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that are by turns poignant and pulpy LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE LITHUB BEST REVIEWED SCI-FI, FANTASY AND HORROR OF 2022 LITHUB BEST REVIEWED SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS 2022 TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEĬBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022įeatured on CBC's The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers
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