Mongolian Horse

by David E. Yee

Mongolian Horse is a collection of stories about Asian American experience, about Maryland, about youth and music. Each story delves into the place where love meets estrangement. These are the narratives each character worries over, and in that anxiety, their person is defined.

David E. Yee is an Asian American writer whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, AGNI Online, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast Online, and elsewhere. In 2017, he won the New Ohio Review Fiction Contest, judged by Colm Tóibín, as well as the Press 53 Flash Contest judged by Jeffrey Condran. He’s a bartender in Columbus, Ohio.

Genres: Fiction

150 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2022

Reviews

[Oscar Gómez · Rating 4 out of 5]

a wonderful small read. This book is a collection of short stories from an author with a simple but enjoyable style. The short stories are of differing lengths, but by the end of the book, I was enthralled in these small stores about heartache, lust, and navigating personhood.

[Monica Macansantos · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stellar examination of masculinity and male grief. Read my full review in Colorado Review: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/...

[David Massey]

This book is filth. I don't read filth.

[Abbi Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

The short stories were so good. Everyone of them had a different theme and genre that fits so perfectly together I think my favorite had to be fontanelles.

[Anna Keibler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mongolian Horse by David E. Yee is truly a treasure, although a gem of a slightly darker hue. Yee's stories are full of yearning and grief, young masculinity and human fragility, sweaty kisses and beds that are too small for two people to fit comfortably.

The stories aren’t long, but they make an impact, beckoning the reader to take a breather after each last line to really digest each tenderly crafted paragraph. Yee expertly takes you on a journey that explores love, life, and loss through the lens of a young Asian man in the eastern edges of America.

My favorite story was the first in the book, and I’m still drowning in those scenes. This book is a short read, but I guarantee Yee will fill the book-sized hole in your heart.