Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe. Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. I wanted the cover to be clinical and haunting-a beautiful bird that is dissected, re-arranged and suspended, showcasing little glimpses of what readers can expect from these engaging, lovely stories. The final design was inspired by taxidermied animals and cabinets of curiosities. From the moment I learned the collection’s title, Jewel Box, I always had this idea of something opening up, with small treasures inside. “From there, I knew I would choose a single image, making it surreal or unfamiliar in the process. “When I read the brief for this project, I made one phrase my guiding light: ‘a strange, terrible, beautiful world,'” artist Christine Kim told Lit Hub. I am grateful to Christine and Samira for their imagination and creativity.” At the very end, designer Samira Iravani realized the book cover would be richer with color, and laid out all the elements beautifully. I know few writers lucky enough to witness their book covers coming together, much less writers who are asked now and then for their thoughts on bird species or that bird’s tailfeathers. “It was a privilege to watch the artist’s work process and see the wide scatter of ideas and the one seed that took root and bloomed. “I was overjoyed to learn that my editor, Sarah Guan, would be asking the talented paper artist Christine Kim to create a sculpture for the cover,” author 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.”Īnd here’s the cover, which was designed by Samira Iravani, based on artwork by Christine Kim: 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 M agic for Beginners, this collection introduces the short fiction of E. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage.Īt 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. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. 
Here’s some more about the book from the publisher: Lily Yu’s collection Jewel Box, 22 stories in which “the strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences,” forthcoming from Erewhon Books this fall.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of E.
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