Description: "Choo's clear and charming style creates an alternate reality where the stakes are just as high as in the real world, combining grounded period storytelling with the supernatural." - Publishers Weekly "Choo's fascinating debut . . . rich in Chinese folklore, mores and the supernatural...intriguing and enlightening. A haunting debut." - Kirkus Reviews "Choo's remarkably strong and arresting first novel...is sure to garner much well-deserved attention." - Booklist "What makes all this work is the sumptuous world of Chinese migr culture and the love story that flows under it all--the kind so full of longing, the pages practically sigh as you turn each one." - Oprah.com, Book of the Week "Captivating epic . . . [this] impressive first novel takes readers on one of the wildest rides since Alice fell down the rabbit hole." - San Jose Mercury News "Li Lan's odyssey keeps her on the brink of earthly demise and keeps the reader riveted to the page . . ." - New York Journal of Books "Delicate and thought-provoking . . . sure to be a hit with supernatural and historical fiction fans alike." - Library Journal "Unlike any book I've ever experienced, with its meld of historical fiction coupled with a fascinating culture, murder mystery, the wandering of spirits of the dead and not-so-dead, romance, and adventures in the afterworld . . . one revelatory experience after another." - Bookreporter.com " . . . From whodunit to ghost story to coming-of-age to romance, there is enough plot to fill several more novels. But the beguiling tale of Li Lan navigating both the land of the dead and the territory of her own heart makes you hope Choo is the author who writes all of them." - USA Today

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