title: Dragonfish: A Novel
author:  Vu Tran 
description: [A] strong first novel for its risk taking, for its collapsing of genre, for its elegant language and its mediation of a history that is integral to post-1960s American identity yet often ignored. Above all, Trans novel is a refreshing and entertaining story.<br /> - <strong>Chris Abani, <em>New York Times</em></strong><br /><br />A superb debut novelthat takes the noir basics and infuses them with the bitters of loss and isolation peculiar to the refugee and immigrant tale.<br /> - <strong>Maureen Corrigan, <em>Fresh Air</em></strong><br /><br />[R]ichly satisfying work. A familiar noir tropethe missing womanblooms darkly in <em>Dragonfish</em> as the story of a lost people, a theme that Tran renders exquisitely, rating the book a place on the top shelf of literary thrillers.<br /> - <strong>Gerald Bartell, <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong><br /><br />[A] hard-hitting debut novel. [Suzy is] a mystery no one can solve, particularly the people turning all their efforts in the wrong direction. But while their efforts arent fruitful, theyre absorbing. And they speak to the way everyone is a bit of an enigma to other people, no matter how many words they put into the effort to be understood.<br /> - <strong><em>NPR Books</em></strong><br /><br />[T]ransfixing. [L]ike such writers as Caryl Phillips, Dinaw Mengestu and Edwidge Danticat, [Tran] is devoted to capturing the immigrant experience and widening everyone's understanding of its particular as well as universal truths.<br /> - <strong>Lloyd Sachs, <em>Chicago Tribune</em></strong><br /><br />A sophisticated mystery anchored in one womans quest to make amends with the daughter she abandoned, <em>Dragonfish</em> delicately capsizes our notions of what it means to long for escape from the prisons of our own making.<br /> - <strong><em>Ploughshares</em></strong><br /><br />Everything is perfect there, those quiet little garnishes of idiosyncratic detail are gifts, both amusing and full of character. Trans novel is filled with this sort of inspired meticulousness, and reading it is to enter its world.<br /> - <strong><em>Barnes &amp; Noble Review</em></strong><br /><br />Like Gatsby, the characters in Trans novel yearn for something unattainable. This and the feeling that there will only be a tragic end are what elevate <em>Dragonfish</em> beyond its bookstore genre.<br /> - <strong><em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em></strong><br /><br />Nuanced and elegiac. Vu Tran takes a strikingly poetic and profoundly evocative approach to the conventions of crime fiction in this supple, sensitive, wrenching, and suspenseful tale of exile, loss, risk, violence, and the failure of love.<br /> - <strong>Donna Seaman, <em>Booklist</em></strong><br /><br />[A] most enjoyable mystery, from its distinct, dazzling premise all the way to its satisfying conclusion.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly, Starred review</em></strong>
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  Book Two
  
  
  Edition 1: 2019
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 JN Moon
  
  
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  Cover art by [Danielle Fine ](https://www.facebook.com/designbydef/) at Design
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Copyright Page](part0000.html#0-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Dragon Born (The Blood Moon
  Series)](part0002_split_000.html#1T140-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Siren.](part0003_split_000.html#2RHM0-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Taste of
  Sea.](part0004_split_000.html#3Q280-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Abyss.](part0005_split_000.html#4OIQ0-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Fire and
  Earth.](part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Angels, Demons &
  Dragons.](part0007_split_000.html#6LJU0-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [Orkneyjar.](part0008_split_000.html#7K4G0-75806ea8ef2843fc8942dc56f2ad6475)
  
  
  [The Legend of the
  Selkies.](par