Monster Portraits

"Sofia and Del Samatar are siblings, and Monster Portraits is a collaboration between her writing and his art, resulting in a gorgeous collection of related vignettes musing on the nature of monsters and monstrosity. Not a bestiary so much as an antibestiary – one that considers every fantastical creature represented as a person to be encountered – Monster Portraits explores and unpacks thoughts about diaspora, race, travel and inheritance in the same sharp, spare, heartbreaking prose that characterized Sofia Samatar’s The Winged Histories."