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“Separately, each cloud can block the wind. Together, we might determine its flow.”

Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

March 13, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Sisters May and Gemma Chow are working hard to keep their family afloat while their father is away being treated for tuberculosis. When they discover the body of Lulu Wong, a former classmate and rising Hollywood star on the outskirts of Chinatown, they set out to solve the mystery of her death. I’m always on the lookout for historical fiction that centers the experience of people who were marginalized during the era of the setting, because to see history through their eyes is usually completely […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: 1930s, ARC, Asian Literature, family, historical fiction, Hollywood, mystery, NetGalley, Stacey Lee, the great depression, Young Adult

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: 1930s, ARC, Asian Literature, family, historical fiction, Hollywood, mystery, NetGalley, Stacey Lee, the great depression, Young Adult ·
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Boy Bites Man

Man Tiger (Lelaki Harimau) by Eka Kurniawan

January 7, 2021 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Man Tiger starts out with a killer opening line: On the evening Margio killed Anwar Sadat, Kyai Jahro was blissfully busy with his fishpond. This crime leaves the populace of a small Indonesian fishing village in shock—Margio, barely twenty, is a well known and well-liked kid. Margio has never been prone to violence. Some folks speculate that with the recent deaths of both his little sister and his father, the boy possibly just snapped. But why was Anwar Sadat the target of his violence? And […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Asian Literature, Eka Kurniawan, Lelaki Harimau, Man Tiger, mystery

LittlePlat's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Asian Literature, Eka Kurniawan, Lelaki Harimau, Man Tiger, mystery ·
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