Description
If fear is an antidote to grief...
At Fanny Gan's wake, her mourners swap ghostly anecdotes and macabre stories while keeping vigil by her coffin throughout the elaborate rites (their meanings often forgotten) of a traditional Chinese-style funeral.
'witty, wry tones run through the course of the book...there is more than one dimension to the writer's style, which encompasses straight storytelling to satirical humour and poetic prose.' โ The Straits Times
