Jewel Box: Stories

Jewel Box: Stories

E. Lily Yu

#6232 of 8,085 books · #1251 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction (2023).

Jewel won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, World Fantasy Award, and Washington State Book Award. The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning writer E. Lily Yu. In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage. At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these twenty-two stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world.