When Fox is a Thousand

by Larissa Lai

Overview

An evocative novel that links the lives of a ninth-century poet/nun and a contemporary Asian-American woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551523392
Publisher:	Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	895 KB

About the Author

Larissa Lai, born in La Jolla, California, is a writer, editor, organizer and professor currently living in Vancouver, BC. She was awarded an Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers Award in 1995 and her first novel When Fox Is A Thousand was shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1996. She is also the author of the novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) and Automaton Biographies (2009).

Editorial Reviews

...When Fox Is A Thousand, the first novel by Astraea Foundation award-winning writer Larissa Lai, comes as a particularly acute pleasure. The book pokes gentle fun at such cliches as the lesbian-as-outsider, while the principal characters - second-generations Chinese-Canadian lesbians - thoroughly and unself-consciously inhabit their own sphere as individuals. Lai's polished and evocative imagery creates a rich world that requires the reader to take it on its own terms...

The three narratives if When Fox Is A Thousand unfold in an elegant spiral of gradually tightening circles till all three collide in a fusion of magical and objective reality. Ultimately, they become the tale, in the fox's words, of "how it happened that I live alone."
— The Advocate

H. Bok