Out of a tangible sense of desperation, Gilliss produces a triumph." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gilliss debuts with a pungent and riveting story set on a tiny, isolated Maine island.Gilliss shines with a lyrical style and bold, fragmented structure.Tuck's resilience makes her an indelible creation. Meghan Gilliss's debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers-bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs smells held by the damp walls of the house, field guides and religious texts, a failed invention left behind by her missing father-Tuck lives moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life, as her husband struggles to detox.Įxquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told-and those she has told herself-to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives - or before they are found out.
Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers.
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