When Fox is a Thousand

I really like Larissa Lai's writing. She writes lush prose, making her novels a lovely and readable experience. I last encountered her with Salt Fish Girl. This book is her first novel. It has three narratives, that of the Fox which in Chinese folktales is a trickster spirit that can inhabit the bodies of women, that of a ninth century Taoist nun who is also a famous poet who was executed for the murder her maid, and that of a young Chinese woman living in Vancouver, BC who is not very good at relationships. There was no real plot to the book. It's kind of a slice of life novel interspersed with folklore and magical realism.

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