In these stories, "the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, and unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us." - HELM
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 1915 shares themes with Fu's story, “Liddy, First to Fly”
Bring Us a Dream, Literary Review of Canada
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