City Like Water

The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
So much has vanished with it – counterfeit watches, streets echoing with the sound of stilettos, and even some of your classmates and teachers.
Then the disappearances come closer to home.
Your mother joins a housewives' protest over fake lotus roots only to be turned into a statue by the police.
Your father is quietly absorbed into the enormous TV gifted by the government, reappearing in the background of soap operas.
And didn't you once have a little sister, before she flew away?
As the police go undercover and transform your neighbourhood into a violent labyrinth you can no longer navigate, where does this leave you?
Lucid, nightmarish and indelible, "City Like Water" is a wondrous tale of a city not so different from your own.