{"id":4189,"date":"2025-06-19T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:13:37","slug":"what-a-fish-looks-like-by-syr-hayati-beker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4189","title":{"rendered":"What a Fish Looks like, by Syr Hayati Beker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my friends likes to say, &#8220;it&#8217;s never too late to have a messy breakup,&#8221; and that could be one of the thesis statements&nbsp;of this book. Jay and Seb are having an epically messy breakup&#8230;also the world is literally ending in environmental collapse and at least one of them will probably leave the planet for another planet whose traits are not well known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also it&#8217;s a mosaic novel whose framing device is a book of fairytales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jazz hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s Red Riding Hood here, but also Antigone, there&#8217;s the Snow Queen, but it&#8217;s not snow, there&#8217;s a kaleidoscope of animal ghosts and human passions, queer theater techs and cleverly named collectives. This book features a lot of fun elements wrapped in with deeply, horrifyingly unfun environmental consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the publisher. One of my friends likes to say, &#8220;it&#8217;s never too late to have a messy breakup,&#8221; and that could be one of the thesis statements&nbsp;of this book. Jay and Seb are having an epically messy breakup&#8230;also the world is literally ending in environmental collapse and at least one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}