Lungfish : a novel
(Book)

"Lungfish is the story of Tuck, a woman whose husband's addiction has drained their finances and driven them to move illegally to an abandoned island off the coast of Maine. There, she must care for their young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives-or before they are found out-while her husband struggles to detox. Tuck finds herself at the mercy of the island for survival, and for answers about her life (little green crabs, boiled bladderwrack, rosehip tea ; notes scrawled out by her grandmother, the smells held by the damp walls of the house, a failed invention left behind by her missing father)-living moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life. With exquisite prose that is displacing and even transformative, Lungfish explores the wild, unknown spaces of what makes a family, and of our capacity to concede ourselves in order to begin again. Meghan Gilliss' debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and the ground that is ever-shifting beneath our feet"--,Provided by publisher.