A Tiny Feast
By Chris Adrian
2009
First Published
4.19
Average Rating
15
Number of Pages
Titania and Oberon, the immortal Queen and King of the Fairies, live under a hill in a modern city park. To save their marriage, they adopt a mortal toddler and begin to raise him, only to discover he has developed terminal leukemia. What follows, set in a fairy den and an oncology ward, is one of the best (and, somehow, realest) short stories ever written, a haunting exploration of love and death that has followed this reader, at least, into marriage, parenthood, and nearly every subsequent day spent on this earth.
Avg Rating
4.19
Number of Ratings
201
5 STARS
45%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
14%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Chris Adrian
Author · 8 books
Chris Adrian was born in Washington D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he attended Harvard Divinity School, and is currently a pediatric fellow at UCSF. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. In 2010, he was chosen as one of the 20 best writers under 40 by The New Yorker.
