Malaysian fantasy author Zen Cho has brought South-east Asian ghouls such as the pontianak and the polong to Regency England in her books.
But she returns home with her latest novel, Black Water Sister, about a young Malaysian woman who moves from the United States back to Penang, only to be possessed by her late grandmother and dragged into a dangerous world of ghosts, gangsters and gods.
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