Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner “If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again.” A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth spirit gets entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord, and Chang E spins off into outer space, the ultimate metaphor for the Chinese diaspora.
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0Every story in this collection is a treasure, but I was particularly moved by The Perseverance of Angela's Past Life, The Fish Bowl, and The House of Aunts. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, some are haunting - in every possible sense - all are consistently strong, solid, well-crafted gems.
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