The Fox Wife

BOOK SUMMARY

Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.

Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can't escape the curse that afflicts them—their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family's luck seems to change—or does it?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yangsze Choo is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghost Bride (now a Netflix Original series) and The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club Pick, and a Big Jubilee Read selection for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. She lives in California with her family and loves to eat and read (often at the same time). The Fox Wife and all previous novels would not have been possible without large quantities of dark chocolate.

PRAISE

"Witty and suspenseful." –Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review

"Like all the best supernatural stories, The Fox Wife reveals something profound about humanity: the ease with which we get drawn into chasing what we think we want, rather than what will actually nourish us. And the cruelty with which the powerful treat those under their power." –Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

"Utterly captivating . . . . So lively and sharp-edged, it unfolds almost like an animated cartoon in your head." –Marion Winik, Oprah Daily

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Book type: Trade Paperback
Page count: 400 pages
Genre: Fiction
Dimensions and weight: 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W | 1 in T | 0.7 lb