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How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly.
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"...Vi Khi Nao seems the elusive love child of Anne Carson and Samuel Beckett, a preposterous connection that, somehow, in the end, makes a lot of sense."
Star Tribune
"The result is a novel that forges a new vocabulary for the routine of grief, as well as the process of healing."
Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The impressions that last, however, will be entirely Nao's own: all the wondrous forms she has revealed to us, the image of them luminescent, flourishing, in the seemingly dark and empty waters of grief."
The Harvard Crimson