Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's "The Erlking"

A wonderful review by Anna Clark of Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's "The Erlking" is available here, in blog Isak.  I read the story on the plane down to Santiago.  Very, very good.  I read also two other New Yorker stories dealing with children, in their own way: Roddy Doyle's Ash (a perfect lesson in metaphor, I mean, just a wonderful short story where the metaphor is revealed in the last paragraph), and La Vita Nuova, by Allegra Goodman (a perfect lesson of taking an emotion- love so fierce it hurts- and transmuting it to a different setting).