'An incredibly accomplished debut novel, a necessary and important tale of empathy and imagination and hope.' -Matt Bell, author of Appleseed Lily Yu is the brilliant voice of conscience our age needs.' -Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and The Grace of Kings By holding up the jagged beauty of faith against despair, E. A soul-searing tale of homecoming, home-becoming, home-conjuring. 'A heartbreaking celebration of the necessity of joy. May it be noticed and read and praised and believed.' -Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'An extraordinary achievement-original in voice, powerful in material, a book of brutal beauty and unflinching compassion. I think Yu is doing some of the most exciting things in genre.' -Jo Walton, Tor.com This should win awards when it comes out next year. 'Beautifully written, absorbing, powerful. It is devastating and perfect.' -New York Times Book Review ' tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. ★ ' On Fragile Waves is a masterful and poetic novel about finding hope and joy in the most dire circumstances.' - Foreword Reviews, starred review Essential fiction to understand our world.' - Library Journal, starred review

★ 'An evocative and heart-lacerating debut novel. ★ ' On Fragile Waves is a lyrical fabulist novel that will enchant readers of both literary fiction and fantasy.' - Booklist, starred review This is a knockout.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ 'In flowing, lyrical prose, Yu showcases the power of folklore and the pain of displacement. 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.

Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends, indifferent to the family's fate. When they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a stable shore gives way to treacherous currents. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia.Īs 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.

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.įiruzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Description NPR 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

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