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A Favorite Book of 2013″-HTMLGiant"The blood of Mai's ancestors run through her syllables. She takes photographs of sentences she abandoned in childhood--that loss of memory, that theme of what photography exposes. Written in the breath of a man in love, a novel, a poem, a photo album, this delirium of river language is finally a treatise on writing. 'Her breath remains in my mouth.' She told him the Vietnamese legend of a story that never begins, darker than any darkness when her family pushes their unsteady boat into the water. They fear arriving as much as they fear drowning. 'Every word is a goodbye.' She escapes sentences. Her body lay against him like moonlight. Doug Rice has written a beautiful-beyond-words American River."--Sharon Doubiago, author of My Father's Love, Love in the Streets, and Hard Country"Between Appear and Disappear is a secular prayer, a body prayer, between seeing and saying, between experience and representation. It
is the only book that I have ever read in my life that is truly corporeal, which is to say truly embodied by and through desire in language.
I will hold it close to my heart for the rest of my life. Kind of I wanted to eat it. Definitely I slept with it under my pillow. It is an unforgettable and perfect book at a time when we need books to be
 exactly what they are, gloriously, unapologetically, mercifully, real.--Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase