![]() Lee has a connoisseur’s reserve in terms of her online presence, but also a connoisseur’s obsessive energy. “They are connoisseurs of writing in Imulai Mokarengen, the city whose name means inkblot of the gods.” There is immense beauty in Yoon Ha Lee’s prose-beauty enough to “assassinate” the reader, as she discusses below. Even the act of remembrance creases the truth.” ![]() “It is not true that the dead cannot be folded,” Lee writes in the opening paragraph of “ Ghostweight.” “Square becomes kite becomes swan history becomes rumor becomes song. No two of Lee’s stories are alike, except for a similar pulse powering each word, each juxtaposition, each startling turn of events. Each tale strains at the edges of possibility. ![]() There are soldiers and scientists, space travel and dragons, leather-bound books, locked doors, and genocidal rampages. Lee’s many worlds seem to multiply exponentially with each paragraph, and each turned page. Yoon Ha Lee’s collection Conservation of Shadows contains sixteen stories, but seems far faster in the reading. ![]()
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