Flying Fish

Description

Twenty-nine year old Devon is a luckless fisherman who ekes out a living on Hogg Island, a cork of rock and misery off the New England coast. He has no future, no opportunities, and only one last vestige of hope: a liaison with the mysterious and perhaps magical Louisa Cecelia Christensen, aka Queenie, the island s maker of shadowboxes and miracles. Queenie is a bit of a miracle herself, a woman over 200 years old who has not physically aged beyond her adolescence. Local legend claims that an assignation with Queenie can either make a man his fortune or secure him an early grave. As Devon sees it, either fate would be an improvement. In this shadowbox of a novella, stories within stories reveal the magic underlying the mundane. Proclaimed as a masterful storyteller by the New York Times Book Review, and as a wordsmith extraordinaire by Booklist, Randall Silvis has crafted in Flying Fish yet another poignant and powerful tale of life s numinosity. As Jeff VanderMeer, editor of Best American Fantasy said of Randall Silvis s acclaimed In A Town Called Mundomuerto, Silvis's haunting prose renders reality strange whether anything actually fantastical occurs in his books or not.