Lesser Known Monsters of the 21 st Century is her debut collection of mostly original stories, and most of them are speculative. In other words, it’s clear that a large number of people who get paid to have opinions see Kim Fu as an excellent writer. 2019 literary novel The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore (Mariner) was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Debut literary novel For Today I Am A Boy (January 2014, HMH) received a slew of accolades, including landing a Lambda Literary Award finalist spot for Transgender Fiction, and winning both an Edmund White award and a PEN/Hemingway Award.
Kim Fu is a new-to-me writer who appears to have hit the literary scene a number of years ago. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21 st Century
Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe. Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. Agent: Jackie Kaiser, Westwood Creative Artists. Fu’s stories crackle with quirky plots, and her characters’ problems and hunger for new possibilities are palpable. An earnest coworker gives Kelly tips to help her sleep, but the sandman becomes her salvation. In “Sandman,” a hooded figure shows up in the night on a woman named Kelly’s bed wearing a robe that contains a multitude of sand, which Kelly, who is unafraid of the sandman and suffers from insomnia, is eager to consume. Identifying as a “Depressive Insider,” she goes to therapy in the mall and she tries dating apps. The mysterious development dovetails with the friends’ own normal pubescent changes, and Grace muses, “The realm of pretend had only just closed its doors to us, and light still leaked through around the edges.” “Time Cubes,” set in a mall where kiosks sell cubes that demonstrate the life cycles of plants and animals, follows a woman named Alice who lives and works in the building as a lab tech. In “Liddy, First to Fly,” preteen narrator Grace and her friends pop the bumps on Liddy’s legs, prompting the appearance of feathers and wings. Poet and novelist Fu ( The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore) delivers a stellar story collection that grounds tales of magical realism in her characters’ emotional realities.
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