As COVID-19 starts ravaging the world, so do the racist allegations that Chinese people (and all Asian Americans, by association) are to blame. It's against this backdrop that Cora Zeng witnesses her sister get pushed in front of a subway car, one of many officially ignored deaths of women in Chinatown in 2020. And Cora would know, as she's a crime scene cleaner tasked with removing all traces of these women and their gruesome deaths (all ruled suicides, incidentally) from their apartments. However, while dealing with the gross details of her job and the grief over her sister, Cora doesn't have time for traditions like the Hungry Ghost Festival. But ignoring the hungry ghosts is a mistake, as Cora soon learns.
This is a fantastic horror novel that combines supernatural horror with the very real horrors of racism and sexism in a terrifying and creative way. An excellent book for fans of The Eyes Are the Best Part or the works of Stephen Graham Jones.
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