Wild Life, Opal Wei
Wild Life, Opal Wei
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Wild Life

Author: Opal Wei

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/23/2024


Synopsis

They're walking on the wild side…

The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister’s life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn’t working anymore. Maybe it’s her unsuccessful research, maybe it’s burnout. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting—and disarmingly handsome—visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it.

Davy Hsieh’s rugged island estate is no manicured suburban park. His plan is simple: establish a legitimate animal sanctuary and embrace life as a hermit to make up for a sketchy past. Zoey invading his fortress of solitude should not, under any circumstances, be a romantic development.

And yet it’s the single most invigorating week of their lives…when they're able to set their many differences aside and embrace it. Stranded amid all manner of flora and fauna—including a semidomesticated cougar called Baby—Davy and Zoey first have to survive the island. Then they'll need to take a leap of faith, maybe even trusting in each other, to save it.
 

About Opal Wei

Opal Wei writes warm, witty contemporary romance featuring emotionally complex multicultural characters and their rambunctious families. Her books (written under pen name Ruby Lang) have been featured in NPR, Buzzfeed, and Vulture. She and her family are recent transplants to Toronto, and despite the fact she doesn’t know where anything is, people keep asking her for directions. Find Opal at opalwei.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by el

UGH, i don't know a writer who does flash fiction better than kathy fish. her work is always so compressed, yet unfailingly packs such a gut punch. in so few words, she's able to simultaneously capture her characters' humanity and the details of their quiet longings and off-center pain (+ the not in......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Compression flies out the window when I attempt to put into words the countless ways Kathy Fish has forever changed my life and my writing, but once you experience her genius, you'll understand why I'm reduced to a blithering fool, and what a supreme honor it was to blurb this stellar collection by......more

Goodreads review by Peter

I’m a huge fan of Kathy Fish — both her flash workshops and her writing. Her stories have a unique ‘feel’ to them. Great writers have the ability to conjure emotion by indirect means, through setting and events, and she does this again and again with such ease. She’s also a master at covering a life......more

Goodreads review by Kris V

A title can have as much power as the piece itself in flash. Kathy Fish is a master if not THE master of flash, and I was happy to order this collection as soon as it was released so I'd have some of her best work in one place to marvel, and even aspire to. I used to think Flash was about containing......more