![]() Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation ![]() There she is forced to confront her past in ways she never imagined, pushing herself, her relationships with her husband and daughter, and her own sense of who she is to the brink.” Her father’s death, along with a mysterious package that arrives on her doorstep in Boulder, Colorado, spurs her to return to Japan for the first time in twenty years. Rio, born Chizuru Akitani, is the Japanese American daughter of the revered violinist Hiro Akitani-a Living National Treasure in Japan and a man Rio hasn’t spoken to since she left her home country for the United States (and a new identity) after her violent crime. “Kelly Luce’s Pull Me Under tells the story of Rio Silvestri, who, when she was twelve years old, fatally stabbed a school bully. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent’s grief all the more clearly.” How do you grieve the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone’s pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. “The loss of a child takes mythological, magical casts-distortions that allow us to see the contours of grief more clearly. Or you could read the books we’re most thankful for at the Chicago Review of Books, listed below. You could spend it reading the blockbusters (Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, Stephanie Meyer’s first novel since Breaking Dawn, or Lauren Graham’s memoir). Whether we’re flying to visit family, sitting on the couch after a warm meal, or just enjoying a few days off work, November and December bring plenty of extra reading time. In November, we enter the two-month period of the year when people read-and purchase-the most books.
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