Ghost Fish

致所有在悲傷中掙扎的靈魂

這是一部溫柔而深情的成長小說。23歲的她，在妹妹溺水身亡後被悲痛吞噬。她獨自來到紐約，卻在一個夜晚遇見一條奇異的「幽靈魚」，並堅信這就是她妹妹的歸來。她將幽靈魚養在玻璃罐中，小心翼翼地保護著，彷彿只要有它在，就不再孤單。但當她在新生活中逐漸成長，她必須面對一個問題：這條幽靈魚，究竟是妹妹的歸來，還是她用來逃避現實的幻象？《幽靈魚》是一部關於失落與療癒的動人故事。

Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she's moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York's Lower East Side. Now she's living the clich?-barely making rent as a restaurant hostess, avoiding her roommates, and watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesn't need originality; she just needs to be alive. So why does she feel she isn't truly living?

Until late one night, when she rounds the corner and sees a shape in the air--a ghost. And how strange, it looks like a fish. What is it? Alison knows, without hesitation: it is her beloved sister, finally returned to her side. Safe in a pickle jar filled with water, the ghost fish goes wherever Alison does: in an alcove at the restaurant; in a tote bag on the subway; in her room at night as her roommates chatter outside. She knows she has to keep her safe from the world, the way she didn't before. She knows that, together, they will never be lonely again. But as Alison's new life in New York begins to grow, and as she navigates the murky waters of dating, friendship, and desire, she must ask: what if her sister is keeping her away from a life outwardly lived?

With tenderness and heart, stretching from New York, New York to Key West, Florida, Ghost Fish is a meditation on grief, loneliness, and the strange, kaleidoscopic ways we help ourselves--and those we love-- through it.