Lucas Stoffel

The Paper Menagerie Book Review: The title story of this collection — "The Paper Menagerie" — is the only work of fiction to win the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award. All three. For a short story. And when you read it, you understand why. It's about a boy whose Chinese mother makes him origami animals that come to life, and what happens when he grows up and becomes ashamed of her. It's about fifteen pages long and it will leave you on the floor.

"The Joy Luck Club" - Amy Tan wrote a book about mothers and daughters, and she made it sound so simple that you don't realize what's happening until you're crying in a chapter about a woman who left her babies on the side of a road during wartime and you understand exactly why she did it and you cannot breathe.