{"product_id":"chinese-fish-by-grace-yee","title":"'Chinese Fish' by Grace Yee","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"638\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"214\"\u003eChinese Fish\u003c\/em\u003e is Grace Yee’s debut poetry collection, a sharp, formally playful book that moves through family history, migration, labour, and inheritance.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"638\"\u003eThe poems centre on a Chinese New Zealand family running takeaway shops, tracing the textures of everyday life—menus, shopfronts, kitchen rituals, suburban geography—while quietly exposing the racial and cultural negotiations that sit beneath them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"1063\"\u003eYee’s work shifts easily between humour and unease. The poems carry the rhythms of speech and storytelling, but they’re also structurally attentive: repetition, fragmentation, and layered voices build a portrait of diaspora that is both intimate and historically aware. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1214\"\u003eThe result is a collection that feels contemporary without chasing fashion: observant, sly, and attentive to the strange poetry of ordinary survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44181970059347,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics-2026-03-11T192316.074.png?v=1773217509","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/chinese-fish-by-grace-yee","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}