This piece reviews four diverse novels exploring themes of identity, trauma, and the supernatural. From a college dropout's bond with a blossoming blobfish to an author's hidden lives, each story offers a unique journey.
Twenty-four-year-old college dropout Vi Liu is going through a rough patch. She’s been dumped by an insensitive white boyfriend who views her through a lens she doesn’t recognise herself in. She’s struggling to forge her own identity and find her place, and Vi’s anomie and sense of deracination are amplified when her Taiwanese father and white mother sell her childhood home without informing her.
It seems like a wild goose chase, but the search will lead to a secret world of darkness and dread. The novel could be tighter, though it’s steeped in gothic and occult atmosphere, and seethes with a palpable sense of mystery and menace that will attract horror fans.They are “feathered poems” and watching them is “an escape to reality”, wrote two ardent birdwatchers of the second half of the 20th century.
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