7 Best literature books like Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold

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Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Permagel book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Boulder book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's A Shining book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's August Blue book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• british literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Similar categories in Siân Hughes's Pearl book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• british literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• contemporary
• literary fiction
• fiction
• british literature

"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Similar categories in John Lanchester's The Wall book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels

"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Johanne Lykke Holm's Strega book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• fiction

"Hun åbnede munden og smagte på den væske, som dryppede fra månen."

-Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega

Similar categories in Daisy Johnson's Everything Under book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• british literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"Death has worn you smooth as a stone."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

"The understanding pity of others is a hole."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

"Anything can be lost if you try hard enough."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

"Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• 21st century

"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's Crudo book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• british literature
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• fiction

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction

"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Similar categories in Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish book and Amy Arnold's Slip of a Fish

• literary fiction
• british literature
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• 21st century
• novels