City Like Water - Paperback

Name: City Like Water - Paperback
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SKU: 9781644453759
Price: 16.00 USD
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by Dorothy Tse

$16.00

Book Overview

The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. So much has vanished with it--classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the erotic toe cleavage that used to lead the way down secret passages. Yet you still catch snatches of conversation lingering in the air and glimpse sun-dazzled residents retreating into dark crevices.

People seem to keep disappearing. Your mother joins in a housewives' protest, each woman waving the fake, bloody lotus roots they were sold until police helicopters unleash a glittery spray that turns them into statues. Then it's just you and your father at home, until he is quietly absorbed into the enormous new TV gifted by the government, and you spot him doing tai chi or picking through leftovers in the background of soap operas. And didn't you once have a little sister, before she flew away in her school uniform? As the police go undercover and transform your neighborhood into a violent labyrinth you can no longer navigate, where does this leave you?

Lucid, nightmarish, and indelible, City Like Water is a wondrous and pointed message in a bottle from a city not so different from your own.

ISBN	9781644453759
Author	Dorothy Tse
Publisher	Graywolf Press
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	March 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	112
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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