Setting Fire To Water

byPhoebe Tsang

May 30, 2022|
Setting Fire To Water by Phoebe Tsang
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Shifting restlessly from dark to light and back again, written in lithe, precise prose, the stories in Phoebe Tsang’s Setting Fire to Water illuminate the lives of those who exist inside otherness. A young Asian woman, an artistic over-achiever turned drifter, endures a mind-bending night of reckoning as she struggles to find her way "home," careening between flirtation and thievery, dream and memory. A reality TV star obsesses about the real stain that blemishes the set of her fake, made-for-TV life. A modern fairytale is told from the point of view of a fox having an argument with its enemy, hunger. A heart-broken accountant goes on a pilgrimage to India to get his fire back, and his attempt to ask for mercy from the most holy of rivers fizzles like his former fiancée’s tepid devotion. These seventeen stories unfold outside the Canadian mainstream, where longing—for home, for love, for artistic achievement, for spiritual fulfillment—is a given, and acceptance—of self, of the knowability of others, of the limits to knowing—is always in question. Using unconventional storylines and slippages in time and space, these stories explore the mystical possibilities inherent in contemporary life.
Phoebe Tsang is a Hong Kong-born Chinese, British, and Canadian poet, author, librettist, and playwright who makes her home in Toronto. She has published a poetry collection, Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse (Tightrope Books, 2009), and her short stories have appeared in Geist, Broken Pencil Magazine, Litro Magazine, Rivet Journal, Asia L...
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Title:Setting Fire To Water
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:220 pages, 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.5 in
Shipping dimensions:220 pages, 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.5 in
Published:May 30, 2022
Publisher:Thistledown Press
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781771872195

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