And as a former Vancouverite, I also appreciated the book's run-down Pacific edge of the future setting." reviews. The Chinese Canadian writer Larissa Lais futuristic novel Salt Fish Girl imagines a mythic femininity that persists even amid its attempted suppression by transnational globalisation. The narrative is not a neat hero's journey-it plays much more along the dream-logic of mythology and fabulism. Miranda is not really trying to explore her own origins, but gets caught up in it. story about two Asian women -one a shapeshifter and the other obsessed with scent and her dead mother - who lived in very different times, but are somehow related. Miranda recognizes Salt Fish Girl in a young woman she meets, but again in the course of the story chases something else. It is dream-like and yet feels intensely real. Larissa Lai's poetic and lucid writing style fits so well with the fantastical yet tactile tone of the book. Salt fish girl is also laden with loss, denial, forgetting and abandonment that is a common thread in an asian diasporic experience. At the same time, however, the circular setup of the novel, the watery motifs, and gendered violence situates the book within women's experiences. It is also a creative challenge to conventional discussions on immigration and geographic/cultural displacement by exposing the power dynamics in the process. Calling this an 'Asian book' or a 'woman's book' limits its scope and depth, a book that delves into memory, both personal and historical. a sci-fi, fantasy, critical social commentary, poetry, and product of the postmodern. Download Salt Fish Girl Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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