![]() Plot summary: Kirilow is a doctor whose lover is Peristrophe, a woman known as a “starfish” who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help others. More specifically, her novel deals with such disparate subjects as new reproductive technologies, genetics, and lesbian separatism and gives them a 21st-century twist. ![]() 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. She has been working periodically since 2001 on The Tiger Flu, a novel that comes from Larissa’s lifelong fascination with fantasy/SF and her desire to write a Joseph Campbell-type hero’s journey but one that encompasses race and gender issues. Salt fish girl is also laden with loss, denial, forgetting and abandonment that is a common thread in an asian diasporic experience. In the intervening years, Larissa published a notable book of poetry (Automaton Biographies) and has taught and written widely on postcolonial issues (both literary and political) (she is currently a professor in the University of Calgary’s English department). Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl tags: fate 2 likes Like That night the Salt Fish Girl came back looking exhausted and dishevelled. Both of her previous novels, When Fox is a Thousand (Arsenal) and Salt Fish Girl, have been the subject of new editions. ![]() The first novel in sixteen years by Asian Canadian writer Larissa Lai, whose imaginative, largely speculative novels have been embraced by and widely taught in Asian American and queer circles. ![]()
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