Lungfish
Read by
Devon Sorvari
Release:
09/27/2022
Release:
09/27/2022
Release:
09/27/2022
Runtime:
6h 4m
Runtime:
6h 4m
Runtime:
6h 4m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Gilliss imbues every page with the ache and uncertainty of trying to give a child small pockets of joy under near impossible circumstances…while also managing to immerse the reader fully in the textures, tastes and sounds of the Maine coast.”
Los Angeles Times
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize
Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives—or before they are found out.
Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs; smells held by the damp walls of the house, field guides and religious texts, a failed invention left behind by her missing father—Tuck lives moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life, as her husband struggles to detox.
Exquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told—and those she has told herself—to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Meghan Gilliss's debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark.
Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives—or before they are found out.
Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs; smells held by the damp walls of the house, field guides and religious texts, a failed invention left behind by her missing father—Tuck lives moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life, as her husband struggles to detox.
Exquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told—and those she has told herself—to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Meghan Gilliss's debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark.
Release:
2022-09-27
2022-09-27
2022-09-27
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
6h 4m
6h 4m
6h 4m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.5 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781696609494
9798212251259
9798212251242
Publisher:
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
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