![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dazzling and propulsive, The Night Tiger is the intimate coming of age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible. Ji Lin and Ren’s increasingly dangerous paths crisscross through lush plantations, hospital storage rooms, and ghostly dreamscapes. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever.Īs the days tick relentlessly by, a series of unexplained deaths wrack the district, along with whispers of men who turn into tigers. Eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy Ren also has a secret, a promise he must fulfill to his dead master: to find his master’s severed finger and bury it with his body. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin plunges into a dark adventure: a mirror world of secrets and superstitions. Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s mahjong debts. ![]() Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine’s Book Club pick for April 2019, NYTimes bestseller, and a Big Jubilee Read book pick for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee ![]()
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