Fish in Exile

Fish in Exile

<div><p>Praise for Vi Khi Nao:</p><p>"Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." <B>—Carole Maso</B></p><p>How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. <I>Fish in Exile </I>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.</p><p><B>Vi Khi Nao </B>was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. Vi's work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her poetry collection, <I>The Old Philosopher</I>, was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her novel, <I>Fish In Exile</I>, will make its first appearance in Fall 2016 from Coffee House Press. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University.</p><BR></div>