Looking After the Ashes For Cheap
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If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don t polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks.
Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh s childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of wisdom daily.
She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly forbidden, pointing at the moon would result in one s ears getting chopped off, and children were forced to stay indoors during sundown for fear of collision with evil forces.
A world where mental disorders and illnesses were believed to be caused by malevolent spirits. Talisman, mediums and fortune tellers were a part of everyday life.
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