Description:
Told in margin notes, posters, letters scrawled on napkins, and six retellings of classic fairy tales, What A Fish Looks Like gathers the stories of a queer community co-creating one another through the strange landscapes of climate change.
Brief description:
Syr Hayati Bekeris a queer nonbinary white Turkish-American writer, immersive experience creator, horror nerd, and art top in search of the queer love language of climate change. They are a graduate of Clarion West, SFSU's MFA, Lambda's Emerging Writers Fellowship, and a Tin House scholarship recipient, as well as residencies from OSU and Writing X Writers. Their work appears in Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fairy Tale Review, Spunk, Foglifter, Gigantic Sequins, Home is Where you Queer Your Heart (Foglifter Press, 2021) and more.
Review Quotes:
"Lyrical, resonant, weirdly wonderful, wildly inventive." - Karen Joy Fowler, NYT Bestselling author of Booth
"Kaleidoscopic and fearlessly innovative, What a Fish Looks Like shatters the boundaries of climate fiction. It's a fierce, tender testament to the power of love, memory, and chosen community in the face of collapse. The book invents a new language for what it feels like to grieve a dying world, and to imagine something radically different in its place." - Kate Folk, author of Sky Daddy and Out There
"From the dedication to the last word, this book is unexpected and brilliant - a deeply queer and riotously joyful lament for our world, so wildly creative, original, and unrestrained it makes the care and artistry with which it's been weaved seem effortless. What a Fish Looks Like is one of the most special and memorable short story collections I have ever read." - Natalia Theodoridou, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning author of Sour Cherry
"Beker's writing ... has a beautifully caustic energy to it, a rapid-fire delivery that brings a hint of humor with an edge. We can never get enough." - The Racket
"Delightfully odd." - Locus Magazine