Piecing together a couple of different crimes, including the infamous Chen-Kao Lien-Yeh child poisonings, Fish Eye subtly crafts a seamless whole from what, at first glance, are disparate criminal cases. As multiple threads of investigation trace their way deeper and deeper into the past, everything is revealed to radiate from a single point.
That single point, which the author has been driving at all along, is to interrogate our images of motherhood, and she won’t accept any naïve answers sourced from simplistic interpretations of feminist theory. Rather, the author constructs a fascinating puzzle of meticulously arranged clues that guide us to question the power structures that underpin our concept of motherhood, leaving readers with unsettling questions that will linger long after the case is cracked and the book is closed.