Fish in the Sky

Erlings, Fridrik

ISBN 10: 151133052X ISBN 13: 9781511330527

Publisher: Candlewick Pr, 2015

Synopsis

Josh Stephenson’s thirteenth year starts with a baf?ing 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.

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Review

Nominated by IBBY UK for the IBBY Honour List, 2010, in the translation category. --International Board of Books for Young People

"Of all the recent coming of age novels, Fish in the Sky must certainly be one of the very best. Written with humour as well as understanding and set in an unfamiliar landscape, this is teenage fiction at its best." --Nick Tucker, Academic/Reviewer/Author

"An outstanding novel" --Outside In: Children's Books in Translation

3 stars! --Books for Keeps

"A wonderful coming-of-age novel that every teenage boy will empathise with, and every teenage girl will glean insight from" -- LoveReading4Kids

"Of all the recent coming of age novels, Fish in the Sky must certainly be one of the very best. Written with humour as well as understanding and set in an unfamiliar landscape, this is teenage fiction at its best" --Nick Tucker - Academic/Reviewer/Author

"Erlings has written a story with empathy, humour and sensitivity through the voice of a very likeable teenage boy" --The School Librarian

"An outstanding novel" --Outside In: Children's Books in Translation

"A wonderful coming-of-age novel that every teenage boy will empathise with, and every teenage girl will glean insight from" --LoveReading4Kids

Lovely, honest and uncompromising coming-of-age story with a great deal of humour about it.. Highly recommended" --THE BOOKBAG

About the Author

Fridrik Erlings is a screenwriter, graphic designer, musician, and author of the YA novel "Benjamin Dove." In 1986 he founded the Sugarcubes with Bjork before leaving music to pursue writing. He lives in Iceland.
""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 ""

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 151133052X
• ISBN 13: 9781511330527
• Binding: MP3 CD