The world of the child is a world where things aren't what they always seem to be. In

The Fish and the Not Fish

, Peter Markus brings us back inside that not-so-simple space and its slippery way of seeing and saying, a place that is primal and mythic in its re-making.

Peter Markus

is the author of the novel

Bob, or Man on Boat

as well as three books of short-short fiction, the most recent of which is

The Singing Fish

. In 2012 he was named a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellow in Literary Arts. He lives in Trenton, Michigan.