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While I appreciate SALT FISH GIRL‘s depth and the variety of fairy tales it plays with, I emerged unsatisfied. The SFnal side of the story was set too soon in the future to feel fully rooted, especially with so much fairy tale logic in play. The basic premise carried me a fair ways in, but I got tired of the story about seventy pages before it ended and limped through the last segment. Sadness.

I‘ve finished all the urgent books on my library stack, so I finally get to read something I own! Hurray! I started SALT FISH GIRL over an excellent supper of palak paneer and naan. It‘s too early to say whether it‘ll develop into something really cool or slide into the Deeply Unsatisfactory SFMALF realm, but y‘all know I‘m hoping for the former. Its few mentions on Litsy sound promising.

Last fall I read and loved Lai's weird bewildering "Tiger Flu," so I picked up this, her second novel. And I am once again bepuzzled for description -- dystopian folklore anticapitalist surreal feminist parable with lots of fish imagery? -- but am also once again helplessly enchanted. Lai writes like nobody's business: y'all check her out.

2. Also reading:
Invisible Chains by Michelle Renee Lane;
In the Green Star's Glow by Lin Carter

3. Reading

4. Yes please.

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Heard Larissa Lai read from the manuscript of her new novel today. It doesn't have a title yet, but it's set in 2145 in the place that was formerly Vancouver. Really looking forward to it!