The Ash House

The Ash House is everything I love about a gothic ghost story: intimate, familiar, yet deeply unsettling. I am so tempted to draw comparisons with Shirley Jackson, but Audrey Chin's novel is an inimitable beast of its own, seething behind some gorgeous imagery of post-colonial Southeast Asia. It is an enchanting whisper in the dark, a shadowy, sensuous call to revisit the demons that reside within the crevices of our ancestral memories. SUFFIAN HAKIM, author of #1 Straits Times Bestseller Harris Potter and the Stoned Philosopher and The Minorities An elegant and original addition to the literature of subversion, alchemically blending the traditional Asian ghost story with the European gothic tradition. It's intelligent, politically aware, sexy and, above all, spooky. This is a book to be read with the lights on, and with a lot of free time because you won't be able to put it down. STEPHEN CARVER, author of Shark Alley: The Memoirs of a Penny-A-Liner Audrey Chin weaves an intricate, startling matrix that does away with the gaps between the visible and invisible life forces influencing human choices. The story is a riveting and sensuous voyage into drama and duality, love and betrayal, dreams and delusions, family and belonging. Reader, prepare to be deliciously unsettled. YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR, award winning author of The Dragonfly Sea, Dust and Weight of Whispers