The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

“Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie houses a collection of stories that are independently stunning. They dabble outside the grasp of reality, creating rich worlds threaded with magic and science fiction in order to breach the threshold between something new and something ancient. While the stories are sometimes haunting, consistently indelible, it’s their strength together that earns this collection a place on the Short List. Combined, the stories weave their way through layers of human experience with a tireless grace.” – Miranda H.

For Powell’s 2016 Short List, we scoured our brains and our bookshelves to put forth a group of the best debut short story collections ever published: http://www.powells.com/the-short-list