Zaynab

“The plot was full of holes, of course, but nobody expects short stories to make sense.”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

“When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I had to laugh, but remembered feeling the same sorrow when I was younger, and telling my mother, 'One day we'll all be dead and the streets will be empty. Who's going to sweep them?”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

“The stories that I like, the ones that make me jealous and fill me with wild desire to write just like them have the same dazzling logic as the old Basque man; there's a piece missing, and that gap transforms them into a myth.”
― Álvaro Enrigue, Hipotermia