RaveShelf AwarenessContemplative ... Some chapters offer consecutive pages of narrative storytelling; some are very brief and take a more gestural or lyric approach ... Lungfish is a novel steeped in the harshness and beauty of the natural world, in which islands may be both real and metaphorical ... Although this novel\'s setting is particular, its themes are universal. Atmospheric, haunted, but struck through with beauty and love, Lungfish is one to remember.