Spirits Abroad

Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the dead, Spirits Abroad. is Zen Cho’s Crawford Award-winning debut collection of short stories. ‘A swathe of delightful and intricate stories from a wildly inventive storyteller’ - Kirkus Reviews. 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. Winner of the LA Times. Ray Bradbury Prize, Spirits Abroad. is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s debut collection on Malaysian myth and folklore with twelve added stories, including Hugo Award winner ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again’.