Maybe the most moving piece of literature I've read this year

Touches a painful subject with tons of respect.

Weird short story about fairies who kidnapped a baby.

This short story from The New Yorker not only had me google the author to see what else he has written, but it made me realize how easily this author made me believe in faeries, spells, changelings, and magic as though I were a young child again, unaware of the adult world of correctness. I am simply moved by his writing.

I love fairie/mortal interactions stories, and this one is especially pleasing because it is so droll.

A beautifully written short on sickness, love, heartbreak and hospitals. Chris does a wonderful job of entering his characters minds. I was thoroughly convinced this was written by a woman, and that she may have lost a child, until I saw the authors name at the bottom of the page.Vivid imagery, with well timed licks of bitter-sweet humour that balm the pain the prose evokes. Insight (without pretension) into the pains of child loss, and the impact on the relationship, told through lovely, quirky...

Really touching short story. Using fantasy to capture human heartbreak over the loss of a child.

The juxtaposition of the fairy world with a cancer ward gives us a new viewpoint with which to see the world of science. Real life needs hopes and dreams without which we would not strive to overcome our trials. Sometimes it's better to be 'away with the fairies' than to engage with the sadness and hardship of human life and death. All this and so much more, presented with humour, warmth and a hospital environment we can believe in, wrapped in the guise of a short story.

This short story is available through the New Yorker. It tells the story of how a mortal child, stolen by a god and goddess, is unsuccessfully treated for leukemia and the story of how the human child came to be with the god and goddess. The god and goddess use "glamour" to disguise what they are from the humans around them, at least until their grief pushes them to a fight and the glamour slips.

Definitely on the high end of four stars. I often find myself compelled by why writers chose to make a specific world or story magic. Often, I think writers don't give too much thought to this -- they just want to write a story with magic in it. But for Adrian, it's obviously different. Many stories about cancer, especially kids having cancer, are romanticized and made out to be this big stoic battle ending in monumental tragedy. But Adrian knows that that isn't a true narrative to people with c...

"...it seemed insufficient to describe a process that to her felt less like a violent unpredictable ride than like someone ripping your heart out one day and then stuffing it back in your chest the next." This short story took me for a ride and broke my heart in the process. Despite all the fantasy elements, it's an incredibly real short story, dealing with love, loss and heartbreak.

Chris Adrian’s “A Tiny Feast” follows the tragedy of the characters Titania and Oberon, who are an immortal Queen and a King living among mortals. In the story, they adopt a boy in hopes for saving them from the boredom of eternal life and their rocky marriage. However, Titania and Oberon finds out that the boy has cancer and because they have never experienced sorrow or illness before in their immortal life, they have no clue as to what they should do or how to feel. İllness is a rather normal

One of the best stories I have ever read. It was funny, it is very sad, it looks at cultural difference and understanding of death and gifts and childhood. "this is the worst gift" was a repeated thought :DGreat book club choice.

Beautiful short story, full of heart rending detail and analogies about parenthood, love, sickness, humanity and loss.

"...She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless."

Some spoilers ahead. This short story ripped out my heart and tossed it out of the window. This was a dark, happy, and sad story all rolled into one. It is about love, loss, confusion, humanity, and compassion. I don’t normally like cancer stories, but this one captivated me.In this masterpiece we meet the King & Queen of fairies and their sick human son. After one of their many fights, King Oberon gifts Titania with a human child as a pet. Titania and Oberon grow to love the child and we see ho...

So I've been reading this because, well, I have my exam in may. Well, short stories are short and I'm in need of a short break in my studies. THIS STORY BROKE MY HEART. It's magic that I can feel this much, considering how short the story is. I just googled Top high rating short story and I come upon this link:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...

Great story. It captured my imagination. A interesting way to deal with the illness of a child.

A beautiful story about loss, love and the mortality ! Haunting emotions and it summarizes perfectly the feeling that parents have when they see their children fighting cancer... It broke my heart "She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless. A feeling like that ought to be able to move mountains, she thought, and then she wondered how s...

The New Yorker é uma revista cheia de escritores talentosos com liberdade para expressar o que sentem e para deixar as palavras fluir.Este pequeno texto foi publicado na revista em 2009 e eu encontrei-o num artigo do Huffington Post "The 10 Best Short Stories You've Never Read". E posso dizer agora que foi uma das 10 melhores pequenas histórias que já li.Conta a história de fadas que se encontram num momento da sua vida tão estranhamente humano: o cancro e a consequente morte de um dos seus. A h...