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"""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.""--Publisher."

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★ “[Yu’s] sentences shine with unexpected images and turns of phrase. . . . Each story here is a gem. A trove of fantastical treasures.” —Kirkus, starred review ★ “Laugh, gasp, wonder, grieve, reflect: Jewel Box asks what enchantment is, even as it mesmerizes you and steals your heart. —Foreword Reviews, starred review “[Yu’s] sentences astonish. . . . Well worth reading for any fan of speculative fiction.” —Publishers Weekly “. . .Alluring and often surreal.” —LitHub “Each story shines, with Yu’s stark prose perfectly suited to these magical realist tales. Read one as a treat. Read the whole thing in one sitting. However you like to consume story collections, make sure you spend time with this one.” —Tor.com “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 “You hold in your hand a collection of marvels – Yu’s stories float like fairy tales and sting like bees.  Sometimes funny, often sobering, magic in every word.”  —Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves “I’ve been waiting for an E. Lily Yu collection for more than a decade—one book to rule them all. Powerful, meaningful, unforgettable, her stories part the veils of history and myth to bring forth marvels for a fractured age. Highly recommended!” —Usman T. Malik, award-winning author of Midnight Doorways “With the bone-ringing clarity of fairytales and the scientific precision of a star-map, Yu has an unfailing sense of how words work. With it, she delivers fresh insights into the ancient myth of Orpheus, evokes the Peter Beagle-esque magic of a unicorn roaming wild in New York’s Central Park, and distills a man-eating monster’s dysfunctional parenting patterns. Her words spark recognition and awe in us a thousand times, in a thousand different ways.” —Nisi Shawl, Nebula Award finalist and author of Everfair “E. Lily Yu has created a cabinet of curiosities with this collection, inviting us into the faceted worlds therein. Eclectic and erudite, equally adept with ordinary and the fantastic, what ties these stories together is Yu's brilliance and compassion; an insistence that the lives (and deaths) of anarchist bees, Babylonian judges, and amorous streetlamps are all worthy of being held up to the light.” —Nino Cipri, award-winning author of Finna “How many of these tales left me in tears? How many in a rage? How many in an ecstasy of wonder? Each one exceptional. Every sentence immaculate. Fearless, meticulous, masterful, E. Lily Yu’s Jewel Box: Stories is clear as cut-crystal, with a drop of blood in every facet.” —C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death’s Daughter “Don't be fooled by the strangeness of her worlds or the fable-like quality of her stories. E. Lily Yu is relentless in her pursuit of the many truths that move our world and she does so with sharpness and kindness alike. Jewel Box is a kaleidoscope of stories that invoke wonder, empathy, and contemplation.” —Eugenia Triantafyllou, author of The Giants of the Violet Sea

Praise for On Fragile Waves: In flowing, lyrical prose, Yu showcases the power of folklore and the pain of displacement. This is a knockout. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review On Fragile Waves is a lyrical fabulist novel that will enchant readers of both literary fiction and fantasy. --Booklist, starred review An evocative and heart-lacerating debut novel.... Essential fiction to understand our world. --Library Journal, starred review On Fragile Waves is a masterful and poetic novel about finding hope and joy in the most dire circumstances. --Foreword Reviews, starred review On Fragile Waves is a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect. --New York Times Book Review Beautifully written, absorbing, powerful.... This should win awards when it comes out next year. I think Yu is doing some of the most exciting things in genre. --Jo Walton, Tor.com An extraordinary achievement--original in voice, powerful in material, a book of brutal beauty and unflinching compassion. May it be noticed and read and praised and believed. --Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves A heartbreaking celebration of the necessity of joy. A soul-searing tale of homecoming, home-becoming, home-conjuring. By holding up the jagged beauty of faith against despair, E. Lily Yu is the brilliant voice of conscience our age needs. --Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and The Grace of Kings An incredibly accomplished debut novel, a necessary and important tale of empathy and imagination and hope. --Matt Bell, author of Appleseed E. Lily Yu's finely honed prose and her child narrator allow for flashes of warmth and beauty between the shocks and sorrows, the terrors and humiliations. --Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels Vivid, intense and heart-wrenching. On Fragile Waves is both a coming-of-age tale and an unflinching meditation on exile, belonging, fragility and hope. --Victoria Law, co-author of Prison By Any Other Name On Fragile Waves confirms that E. Lily Yu is a prodigy. Every line a gemstone, every page a calligram. -- Usman T. Malik, author of Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan A stunning heartbreaker. The prose is as sharp and beautiful as the story it tells . . . bringing into painful beautiful focus all the ways the world is horrible, and all the ways the world is magic. --Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City and The Art of Starving

“You hold in your hand a collection of marvels – Yu’s stories float like fairy tales and sting like bees.  Sometimes funny, often sobering, magic in every word.”  —Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves “With the bone-ringing clarity of fairytales and the scientific precision of a star-map, Yu has an unfailing sense of how words work. With it, she delivers fresh insights into the ancient myth of Orpheus, evokes the Peter Beagle-esque magic of a unicorn roaming wild in New York’s Central Park, and distills a man-eating monster’s dysfunctional parenting patterns. Her words spark recognition and awe in us a thousand times, in a thousand different ways.” —Nisi Shawl, Nebula Award finalist and author of Everfair “E. Lily Yu has created a cabinet of curiosities with this collection, inviting us into the faceted worlds therein. Eclectic and erudite, equally adept with ordinary and the fantastic, what ties these stories together is Yu's brilliance and compassion; an insistence that the lives (and deaths) of anarchist bees, Babylonian judges, and amorous streetlamps are all worthy of being held up to the light.” —Nino Cipri, award-winning author of Finna

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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.

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