The other, Poppy, the psychic madam of the brothel, is desperately in love with him, and she begins to sink into despair as he grows further and further away from her. One, the beautiful young Chloe, depends on him but has eyes for someone else, someone even more forbidden-the local preacher's daughter.
Richard's wife's unexpected arrival complicates his life in no small way-not least with two prostitutes at the local brothel he frequents. Two of the women are unknown to the townspeople, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor, who had left her behind in China many years earlier and had not yet returned for her. Complicated, compassionate, haunting, Shawna Yang Ryan's novel feels more like tapestry than words on paper, her prose less like sentences, more like song.' - Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My WeaknessĪ mesmerizing story of a community of Chinese immigrants in a small Californian town in 1928, weaving history and mythology around the lives of the townspeople and the ghosts who haunt them Locke, California, 1928-three bedraggled Chinese women suddenly appear out of the mist one afternoon in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River, and their arrival throws the community into confusion. Artfully woven, exquisitely modulated, walking a master's line between ancient Chinese myth and the grit of immigrant life in the Sacramento Delta, Water Ghosts tells the unforgettable story of a town brought to its knees by loneliness and longing.
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