Book review: Ghost Girl, Banana a story of immigrant belonging with million-dollar stakes

Ghost Girl, Banana By Wiz Wharton. PHOTOS: PANSING, ROBERT LOGAN
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Ghost Girl, Banana
By Wiz Wharton
Fiction/Harpervia/Hardcover/400 pages/$29.95/Books Kinokuniya
4 stars

Starting hesitantly, this debut novel by Chinese-European author Wiz Wharton is like a flight between London and Hong Kong, whirring and putting before it lifts off the tarmac.

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