{"product_id":"on-fragile-waves-isbn-9781645660323","title":"On Fragile Waves","description":"\u003cb\u003eNPR Books We Love 2021 | Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021 | Booklist Best of 2021 | Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles | NYT Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 | Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves\u003c\/i\u003e is a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect.” — \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award winning author, traces one girl’s migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiruzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a stable shore gives way to treacherous currents. Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends, indifferent to the family’s fate. For Firuzeh, her fantasy worlds provide some relief, but as her family and home splinter, she must surface from  these imaginings and find a new way.★ “In flowing, lyrical prose, Yu showcases the power of folklore and the pain of displacement. This is a knockout.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, starred review \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ “\u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical fabulist novel that will enchant readers of both literary fiction and fantasy.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ “An evocative and heart-lacerating debut novel. . . . Essential fiction to understand our world.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, starred review \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ “\u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful and poetic novel about finding hope and joy in the most dire circumstances.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is Yu’s first novel, but you’d never know it from the surety of her approach, the immensity of what she achieves. \u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves \u003c\/i\u003eis a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect.” \u003cb\u003e—Amal El-Mohtar\u003c\/b\u003e in the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most devastatingly beautiful books I read all year.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, “Best Books of 2021”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Beautifully written, absorbing, powerful. . . . This should win awards when it comes out next year. I think Yu is doing some of the most exciting things in genre.” —\u003cb\u003eTor.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Powerfully affecting.” \u003cb\u003e—Ted Chiang\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eExhalation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinary achievement—original in voice, powerful in material, a book of brutal beauty and unflinching compassion. May it be noticed and read and praised and believed.”\u003ci\u003e —\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Joy Fowler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A heartbreaking celebration of the necessity of joy. A soul-searing tale of homecoming, home-becoming, home-conjuring. By holding up the jagged beauty of faith against despair, E. Lily Yu is the brilliant voice of conscience our age needs.” —\u003cb\u003eKen Liu\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An incredibly accomplished debut novel, a necessary and important tale of empathy and imagination and hope.” —\u003cb\u003eMatt Bell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAppleseed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“E. Lily Yu's finely honed prose and her child narrator allow for flashes of warmth and beauty between the shocks and sorrows, the terrors and humiliations.” —\u003cb\u003eMargo Lanagan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTender Morsels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vivid, intense and heart-wrenching. \u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves\u003c\/i\u003e is both a coming-of-age tale and an unflinching meditation on exile, belonging, fragility and hope.” —\u003cb\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003ePrison By Any Other Name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves\u003c\/i\u003e confirms that E. Lily Yu is a prodigy. Every line a gemstone, every page a calligram.” — \u003cb\u003eUsman T. Malik\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMidnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stunning heartbreaker. The prose is as sharp and beautiful as the story it tells . . . bringing into painful beautiful focus all the ways the world is horrible, and all the ways the world is magic.” —\u003cb\u003eSam J. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBlackfish City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. Lily Yu\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eOn Fragile Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Washington State Book Award. She received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012. Her stories have appeared in venues from \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's \u003c\/i\u003eto Tor.com, as well as thirteen best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. You can find her at elilyyu.com.","brand":"Erewhon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301124952293,"sku":"NP9781645660323","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781645660323.jpg?v=1767734089","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/on-fragile-waves-isbn-9781645660323","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}