Synopses & Reviews
With passion and humor, an Icelandic author tells the coming-of-age tale of a boy navigating lifes changes in all their angst and ecstasy.Josh Stephensons thirteenth year starts with a baffling sequence of events. His estranged father has just sent him a taxidermied falcon for his birthday. His flirty seventeen-year-old girl cousin has moved into his house, using his bedroom as a passageway and taking bubble baths in the unlockable bathroom. And now hes gone AWOL from school to escape the locker-room teasing about certain embarrassing anatomical changes. On top of all that, hes in love, but wondering if dreams of love can ever come true. Hiding out in his secret hollow in a big rock by the sea, Josh tries to figure out once and for all: is his life being sucked into a black hole, or is this just being thirteen?
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 Björk 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 well ever become. The question is: where will we go from there?" — Fridrik Erlings