Fiction. May-Lan Tan's first published story appeared in Zoetrope: All- Story in 2011, and her long- anticipated debut collection,Things to Make and Break (CB Editions), is poised to become a cult hit
"There's plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic, and these strange, flinty, cigarette-stained narratives speed by, offering lots of surface tension and compel- ling deeper passions." —James Smar