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Unpredictable twists keep the pages turning while the comic but endearing relationship between Jess and her sassy grandmother provides the story’s heart. “Cho’s multifaceted characters, like her masterful plot, are never quite what they first appear. Wildly entertaining… Black Water Sister has it all!”- Vulture Cho offers a complex emotional roller-coaster of a read.”- Library Journal an immersive tale of family secrets, deities, spirits, and religious belief. Drawn into a world of Malaysian myth and real-world consequences filled with gods, ghosts, and family secrets, Jess finds that making deals with capricious spirits is a dangerous business, but dealing with her grandmother is just as complicated. She soon learns the new voice isn’t even hers, it’s the ghost of her estranged grandmother. Closeted, broke and jobless, she’s moving back to Malaysia with her parents-a country she last saw when she was a toddler. When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. One of Tor Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2021Ī twisty, feminist, and enthralling page-turner steeped in Malaysian mythology. One of Book Riot's Best SFF Standalones of 2021

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2021 Best Audiobook Tagged: magical realism, mystery, *books considered for group read (Group read suggestion from Gemma Ware, book club moderator.) Eka is shaping up to be Murakami: approaching social concerns at an angle rather than head-on, with hefty doses of surrealism and wry humour.” - The Economist “Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be South-East Asia’s most ambitious writer in a generation. “A supernatural tale of murder and desire fascinatingly subverts the crime genre … Kurniawan’s writing demonstrates an affinity with literary heavyweights such as, yes, García Márquez and Dostoevsky.” -Guardian ”Without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today.” - Benedict Anderson Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, this extraordinary novel announces the arrival of a powerful new voice on the global literary stage. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. The following are just a few recent examples of our favorite works of magical realism.Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 & winner of the Financial Times Emerging Voices Fiction Award 2016Ī wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. A good writer will blend the two so seamlessly that the reader - and often the characters - will easily suspend disbelief, will accept that, sometimes, magic can seep into our everyday, rational world. Most characters are human beings as real as you and me, but their stories are interwoven with elements of magic and mythology. In magical realism, the ordinary and extraordinary intertwine in a reality-based world. Stories of fantasy, science fiction, and the paranormal introduce us to alternate universes with their own sets of rules.

The big difference is in the world the author creates. People often confuse magical realism with other genres, like fantasy and supernatural, and there are some similarities. It may sound contradictory - magic and reality co-existing in the same realm - but that contradiction is exactly what makes it so much fun to read! The term was first used many years ago to describe a literary tradition that began in Latin America. We’ve been hearing a lot about magical realism lately in books, movies, and other art forms.