num_pages: 272
description: When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical magical novel rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder) and the oddly named Artemis a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.With beautiful and enchanting prose and a sure narrative hand Lai combines Chinese mythology the sexual politics of medieval China and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhibit womens bodies in order to cause mischief).
language: English
title: When Fox is a Thousand
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press