Giving The Moon — Yoav Blum

What price would you pay for impossible gifts? What worlds exist between dreams and waking?In a shop that sells pieces of the moon, a man trades fragments of himself for the perfect gifts, never realizing what he's losing until it's too late. Elsewhere, a dream-walker navigates the subconscious of strangers, searching for connection in worlds that dissolve by morning. And in a quarantined village, amnesiacs struggle to rebuild identity when their pasts have been officially erased.Across nine mesmerizing tales, Yoav Blum blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy, weaving stories where memory is currency, love is both salvation and sacrifice, and the extraordinary hides within the ordinary. From a plague of unstoppable generosity to an afterlife governed by bureaucracy, these stories explore the costs of desire and the illusions we maintain to survive.Lyrical, philosophical, and achingly human, Giving the Moon asks what happens when we chase shortcuts to happiness, only to discover that what we truly seek may have been within our grasp all along.For readers who loved the magical realism of Haruki Murakami and the speculative wisdom of Ted Chiang comes a collection that illuminates the space between what we want and what we need, between the worlds we imagine and the ones we inhabit.