I am put into a similar worshipful and ecstatic frame of mind. These fabulaic heterogenous and ingenious mini-masterpieces (including some hard-edged SF) bring to mind...past masters ... This must-have collection, monumental yet never overwrought, shows Yu sharing the same stage as Salman Rushdie and other fine fabulists of our lucky era.
Brilliant, sparkling ... Inanimate objects take on wondrous life ... The prose is exquisite on a sentence-by-sentence level ... The realistic stories in the collection are heartrending ... An enchantment.
An astonishing collection of stories ranging from the merely beautiful to the complex articulation of magic. Run, don’t walk, to get a hold of this transformative text.
Yu displays her considerable skill as a prose stylist in this collection of 22 speculative shorts ... The result is well worth reading for any fan of speculative fiction.
