# Jewel Box: Stories - Hardcover

by **E. Lily Yu** (Author)

****Featured on _LeVar Burton Reads_****

"Like Oscar Wilde or Ray Bradbury, E. Lily Yu writes the kind of delicious short stories that come with a sting in the tail. Utterly beguiling." --Kelly Link, bestselling author of _Get in Trouble_

"Each story here is a gem. A trove of fantastical treasures." _**\--_Kirkus Reviews_ STARRED REVIEW**_

"An astonishing collection of stories...transformative." _**\--_Library Journal_ STARRED REVIEW**_

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. For readers who loved the intelligence and compassion in Kim Fu's _Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century_ and the dreamlike prose of Kelly Link's _Magic for Beginners_, this collection introduces the short fiction of E. Lily Yu, winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and author of the Washington Book Award-winning novel _On Fragile Waves_, praised by the _New York Times Book Review_ as "devastating and perfect."

**"A lovely story." **_\--_**LeVar Burton, on "The Pilgrim and The Angel" (from _Jewel Box: Stories_)**

### Author Biography

**E. Lily Yu** is the author of the novel _On Fragile Waves_, which won the Washington State Book Award. She received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012. Her stories have appeared in venues from _McSweeney's_ to Tor.com, as well as thirteen best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. You can find her at elilyyu.com.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.26 x 8.35 x 5.59 IN

**Publication Date:** October 24, 2023

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