dolorosa_12: (matilda)
a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote in [personal profile] frayadjacent 2017-01-14 01:29 pm (UTC)

Hooray for more Zen Cho books/short stories! If you hadn't planned to do so already, I really recommend her collection of short stories, Spirits Abroad, and her novella The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo. I find her writing to be really warm, hopeful and just deeply human in a way that I find difficult to describe. She's also fabulous about describing food, so I strongly recommend reading her work when you're not hungry! It probably helps to know going in that The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo is not SFF — I was expecting it to be fantasy, just because all her other fiction is, so for a while I kept expecting fantasy elements to show up, before I realised they weren't going to.

The Golem and the Djinni is great too, for similar reasons — very warm and human and hopeful, with a great sense of little quirky moments of history, the disorienting experience of being an immigrant (Zen Cho's stories are frequently about Malaysian immigrants to the UK, as she herself is), and the city of New York being almost like a character in its own right. I hope you continue to enjoy it.

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