The U.S. edition of Call Me Ishmaelle , marketed as a “feminist reimagining” of Moby-Dick , comes barnacled with blurbs. The Chinese British writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo “has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style,” the Telegraph proclaims. She “gives renewed forms of life to [Herman] Melville’s immense novel,” the Times Literary Supplement trumpets. And the New Statesman assures readers that the novel “deftly incorporates philosophical questions about our relationship