Ji Lin, a young apprentice dressmaker moonlighting as a dancehall girl to pay her mother’s debts, accidentally receives one of her dance partner’s lucky charms: a mummified finger. Ren only has 49 days to reunite the finger with its earthly body or his master’s soul will roam the Earth forever. Set in 1930s Colonial Malaya (current Malaysia), Yangsze Choo’s The Night Tiger follows an eleven-year-old houseboy named Ren, tasked with fulfilling his dead master’s final wish to find his long-since detached finger. And yet, some stories seem to encompass it all. Others are filled with emotional turmoil and death. Others enchant with forbidden romances and evil foes. Some stories tell of rich histories and folklore. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (Flatiron Books, 2019)
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