Larissa Lai
When Fox is a Thousand, is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.,With beautiful and enchanting prose, and a sure narrative hand, Lai combines Chinese mythology, the sexual politics of medieval China, and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhibit womenâ€™s bodies in order to cause mischief).
Fantasy,Fiction,LGBT,GLBT,Queer,Magical Realism,Historical,Historical Fiction,Cultural,Canada,Historical,Cultural,China,Cultural,Asia
When Fox is a Thousand