Description: "Like Smoke, Like Light, the debut collection of short fiction from Japanese author Yukimi Ogawa, gathers seventeen tales that Locus Magazine has described as constructed in a "wild-but still grounded, feeling more like SF than fantasy-fashion." As novelist and poet Francesca Forrest writes in her introduction, "Ogawa is a remarkable light in the science fiction and fantasy firmament," who "writes unsettling stories that are by turns horrifying and touching." This book "give us space and time to think about how we really feel about tricky questions-like what makes a monster" and how loving families can be found when one accepts "the forms they choose to wear."--Publisher's description.
Brief description: Yukimi Ogawa lives in a small town in Tokyo where she writes in English but never speaks the language. She still wonders why it works that way. Her fiction can be found in such places as CLARKSWORLD, THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, and STRANGE HORIZONS. In 2021, she was finally translated into Japanese. LIKE SMOKE, LIKE LIGHT is her debut collecton of short fiction.