The ghost bride book review5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Truth be told, I think I preferred The Ghost Bride to The Night Tiger. I was familiar with Choo’s work from her previous novel, The Ghost Bride. When one of her patrons leaves behind a preserved finger and dies soon after, Ji Lin becomes enthralled in the mystery of finding its true owner. Instead, she’s a dressmaker’s apprentice who moonlights as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s debts. Meanwhile, Ji Lin is a young woman who dreams of being a doctor, although that seems impossibly out of reach given the gender prejudices of the era. Elsewise, he might continue to prowl the world as a stalking tiger. ![]() He’s charged Ren with finding his missing finger so that he will be buried whole and his spirit put to rest. Ren is a houseboy who served a Western doctor… before he took sick, plagued by hallucinations of being a tiger before his death. The Night Tiger centers around the intertwined lives of Ren and Ji Lin, who both live in 1931 Malay. The Night Tiger is a wonderful blend of literary fiction and genre fiction - involving everything from historical fiction to magical realism. ![]()
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