Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss a novel told in a poetic style that builds tension around the delicacy of struggling and living on the edge. Theme: 'I Love All My Friends,' an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Devon Sorvari gives a stunning performance of Meghan Gilliss’s timely and powerfully affecting audiobook, Lungfish, about a young family in dire circumstances. Produced by Nat Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Join us for a conversation between Gilliss and Kendall Storey.

Meghan Gilliss’s debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark.

Meghan Gillisss debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers-bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs smells held by the damp walls of the house, field guides and religious texts, a failed invention left behind by her missing father-Tuck lives moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life, as her husband struggles to detox.Įxquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told-and those she has told herself-to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Exquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told-and those she has told herself-to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives-or before they are found out. Lungfish Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel, is a brilliant and heartbreaking story about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark. Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers.

Lungfish meghan gilliss