Fish in Exile

A mother and father in mourning for their children respond to the tragedy in very different ways. This is a book where I'm grateful the English language has this construction available to me: "I am glad to have read it." Meaning, it was work, but worth it, and I'm glad it's over. The challenge to wri......more

This book is stunning in all senses of the word, especially in the sense that I am rendered rather speechless. Exquisite, brutal, haunting.......more

emo like duras is emo. grieving, brave, and deracinating, i found FISH IN EXILE unafraid to wear emotion on its sleeve. and yet sui generis; made with a charged, defamiliarized language... making the old (classic) story somehow all her own (the persephone retell a favorite bit), the book has a littl......more

A Conversation With Vi Khi Nao About Exile On November 3, 2016, I sent this message to my friend Vi, whose book Fish in Exile is helping me breathe: Sent Nov 3, 2016 11:04:08 AM Vi Khi Nao Vi, I just love yr book. Do you know that my blog, going way back to the live journal days (and now tumblr) is ca......more

Vi Khi Nao uses unconventional techniques in her debut novel, Fish in Exile, to explore a universal theme of grief in horrifying psychological detail. Our grieving narrators are a pair of bereveaved parents whose streams of consciousness booke their family and friends' perspectives in the center. Ch......more