The plan was to take a year navigating Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, in search of life, love, and meaning. It took nine years.
Flying with the Cormorants is a genre bending work that is all memoir, but with a generous helping of fiction and a whole lot of travel.
Set in the 80s and 90s, against a backdrop of great societal change this coming of age story paints the reasons we travel and includes elements of conflict, tragedy, hope, and romcom as our protagonist descends from fulfilling his dreams with the purest motives, into a hedonistic decline.
Like the cormorant used by the Ukai fishermen, will he be destined to catch the fish but not eat it or can he find redemption?
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Mel Christie W M Christie
March 25, 2025