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daphnelee's review
4.0
Malaysians love to hear and tell tales about their encounters with supernatural beings and the difficulty in transferring these oral anecdotes to the page is that they are usually just fragments and not whole stories. Golda Mowe has taken these fragments, these brief encounters with mythological beings, local monsters and ghosts, and woven them into stories about ordinary people going about their everyday lives. In her hands, superstition and myth are just threads in life's tapestry, and her matter of fact and simple accounts of personal, human experience allow her characters and the reader to make what they will of the uncanny events that add to the patterns of bright and dark in the big picture of life.
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