Wow!

I can totally understand why this won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award. It's a wonderful little story (about five thousand words) that everyone should read.

The story is simple but oh-so-moving. It's about a boy, his mother, fitting in, and what that can cost with a dash of magical realism thrown in.

I don't want to say much more about it due to how short the story is, but it's one of my favorites. This is definitely moving to the 'short stories to reread' folder, and it's moved Liu's book much farther up my TBR than it was before.