Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Cen..., Kim Fu
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Cen..., Kim Fu
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Author: Kim Fu

Narrator: Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Naeymi, Gary Tiedemann, Jeena Yi

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2022

Synopsis

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. 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.
 
Mesmerizing, electric, and wholly original, Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature.
 

About The Author

Kim Fu is the author of For Today I Am a Boy which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Fu’s writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the TLS. She lives in Seattle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jorie on September 01, 2023

Ordinarily for short story collections, I'd skip the overall rating and rate each entry individually. But Kim Fu is no ordinary author. And Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is no ordinary book. This is an easy 5 stars from me, her specific way of combining words marveling me just as much as h......more

Goodreads review by John on March 26, 2023

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is an eclectic collection of dark-themed short stories. The individual story ratings range from three stars (average) to five stars (outstanding). The first story, "Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867," was probably my favorite, a fun and thought-provoking c......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on May 16, 2024

A very strong weird women write fiction collection!! Speculative and humanistic, childlike realism meets adult imagination— very compelling. Wish there were more stories!......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Cat on October 31, 2022

What an altogether delightful surprise. I went into Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century with zero expectations and found myself quite enchanted by their ability to develop compelling characters (and sometimes worlds) in the same time it takes most writers to describe a table. This is......more

Goodreads review by Trevor on January 16, 2022

About once a year I try to read a book of short stories and always end up deciding the form is not for me, but for some reason I keep trying. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century was so wonderful to read, it’s made up for all my past efforts. I love every story in this book. I found myself tryi......more

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