Fishlight

Overview

Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.

Reviews

"Pineda ably captures the fragmented, superintense perception of a precocious child, constructing this poignant fictional memoir in crystalline, poetic prose." —Publishers Weekly

Author Biography

Cecile Pineda received a National Endowment Fiction Fellowship to write The Love Queen of the Amazon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.