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Violence
Some
Some threat and violence in the afterlife setting
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic content at the level of historical fiction
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The experience of navigating a bureaucratic afterlife while the living world threatens to move on without you creates the novel's distinctive melancholy
What this book is about
Yangsze Choo's atmospheric debut follows Li Lan, a young woman from a declining family in 1890s Malacca, who is proposed to as a ghost bride for a young man recently deceased. When she begins to be haunted by him, she is drawn into the Chinese afterlife — a bureaucratic realm that mirrors the living world. Rich with Malaysian Chinese folklore, atmospheric, and quietly romantic. A distinctive and absorbing novel.
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