The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Now a Netflix original drama!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club pick, Yangsze Choo's stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists.

Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a "ghost bride" for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price?

 

Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family's darkest secrets--and the truth about her own family.

Yangsze Choo is a Chinese-born Malaysian novelist. She worked as a management consultant after getting her undergraduate degree from Harvard before penning her New York Times bestselling debut novel The Ghost Bride, which is now a Netflix Original series. She loves to eat and read (often at the same time) and lives in California with her family and several chickens. Without a lot of dark chocolate, The Night Tiger would not have been feasible. Yangsze is pleased to Skype with bookclubs!