Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

'I think the imagined technologies in the book are able to bring certain emotions to a head - emotions that are a little bit more nebulous or desires that are vague or hard to pin down. Why Kim Fu wrote Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu taps into the power of short stories in her collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.

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A deeply emotional collection that delights, dares, and dazzles.' But these set-ups stealthily reveal themselves to be structures for unspeakably moving revelations about the most real of human experiences - grief, anger, mistrust, sex, nostalgia, sacrifice. Moving from an argument with the operator of a VR machine to an insomniac's encounter with a veritable sandman to a couple who can die and resurrect themselves at will, Fu's worlds are fantastical and enterprising in their own right. 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize juryįrom the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury: An endlessly surprising story collection without a single flawed entry in the bunch, Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is brilliantly textured. A deeply emotional collection that delights, dares, and dazzles.

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is on the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. The winner will be announced on Nov. She has published two works of fiction, For Today I Am a Boy and The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, and a book of poetry called How Festive the Ambulance. Kim Fu is a Washington-based, Canadian-born fiction writer and poet. 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. 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.

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu