A Thousand Beginnings And Endings

"Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, this anthology focuses on retellings of South and East Asian myths and folktales, with contributors mostly of South and East Asian heritage. An author’s note appears at the end of each story, with a summary of the original tale and the reasons the author had for choosing to retell it. It’s an easy book to pick up and put down, and the stories vary widely in tone, theme, emotion, setting. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings is a special anthology; for those of us who may have heard these legends at home but never in an academic or literary setting, or for those of us who never heard them at all, letting us discover these tales through different lenses."