{"product_id":"lesser-known-monsters-of-the-21st-century","title":"Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn NPR, Book Riot, Chicago Public Library, Tor.com, \u003cem\u003eSouth China Morning Post, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMs.\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine, and Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Exhilarating. . . . Electrifying and haunting.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --Book Riot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the twelve unforgettable tales of \u003cem\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. 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. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, and unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMesmerizing, electric, and wholly original, Kim Fu's \u003cem\u003eLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Fu\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eFor Today I Am a Boy\u003c\/em\u003e which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award, as well as a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor's Choice. Her second novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Fu's writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Hazlitt, and the TLS. She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Fu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038344904989,"sku":"9781951142995","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781951142995.jpg?v=1773423467","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/lesser-known-monsters-of-the-21st-century","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}