Fish in the Sky, Fridrik Erlings
Fish in the Sky, Fridrik Erlings
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Fish in the Sky

Author: Fridrik Erlings

Narrator: Todd Haberkorn

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2012

Synopsis

Josh Stephenson’s thirteenth year starts with a baffling sequence of events. His seventeen-year-old girl cousin moves into his house, making his bedroom a corridor, he devises a truancy plan to escape the embarrassment he suffers at school, and his estranged father sends him a stuffed falcon for his birthday. And on top of all that, he’s in love but wondering if dreams of love can ever come true. Josh goes to his secret hollow on the beach, a rocky outcropping along Iceland’s rugged coast, to try to work out if his life is being sucked into a black hole or if this is just being thirteen. Written with passion and humor, this coming-of-age novel explores the juxtaposition of teenage angst and ecstasy.

About Fridrik Erlings

Fridrik Erlings is a novelist, screenwriter, graphic designer, and musician. In 1986 he founded the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes with Björk before leaving music to pursue his writing. He has written and translated lyrics as well as ?lm and television scripts and is the author of the Icelandic classic Benjamin Dove. He says that Fish in the Sky is “about the extreme pains and joys of being a teenager, the curious period in our lives that we all experience in more or less the same way, regardless of our culture, country, race, or gender. Perhaps it is the one time in our whole lives when we are in fact the most perfect human beings we’ll ever become. The question is: where will we go from there?” Fridrik Erlings lives with his wife on a farm in Iceland’s wide-open South.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kera Lena on January 05, 2014

There was some fabulous writing in this book. Some of the metaphors were beautiful and the language was beautiful. I don’t know if this is because the book was translated from Icelandic and that language is different or if the author just writes like this all the time. Either way sometimes I just wa......more

Goodreads review by Mimi on May 22, 2015

The only reason I picked up this book at a book fair is because of the cover. It has this blue and simple cover with some fancy-childish font on the front and stars are sparkling all over the background. It is one pretty book and since the summary is not that interesting, the cover actually makes a......more

Goodreads review by Heather Noble on August 29, 2013

A wry understated insight into the life of a 13 year old Icelandic boy with the inevitable dysfunctional family but imagination, intuition and poetry in his soul.......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 25, 2021

This book is about a adolescent boy named Joshua, so of course means we are diving inside the mind a boy he is just discovering his body and I found it mildly uncomfortable. Especially when his older cousin seems to be the center of his sexual awakening. The ending is bittersweet leaving his mother,......more

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