My name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl ...

Now a Netflix Mandarin 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. Reminiscent of Lisa See’s Peony in Love and Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Ghost Bride is a wondrous coming-of-age story and from a remarkable new voice in fiction.

A love story of a boy and a beautiful ghost girl. Modern poems of the darker side of life and living. "Even though we seem lost. Our ghosts are gathering, our ghosts are gathering to take us hand in hand birds of white feather, lie and cheat but still, together." -Death In June

My name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl ...

"You love me, don't you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You'd better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jonathan. But he's already married. To a vengeful ghost. "I love you to death."

Since I was a child, my fate had been strange. The fortune-teller said that this was basically death. In order to let this little life of mine breathe a little more, Grandpa made a "ghost bride" out of the girl he married from a young age. I did survive, but with this' damned girl 'pestering me everyday, it's practically a fate worse than death!

Picking up corpses was not about the crematorium collecting corpses. It referred to the people who were drunk at the entrance of the nightclub. It was commonly known as Picking up corpses. I was a part-time nightclub waiter, but picking up corpses was another job for me, though not every time I picked up "corpses" they were drunk living people. Sometimes they really were.