There was so much going on! Jess’ struggle with identity-finding, her tense interactions with her long-distance/secret girlfriend, the pressure from family/girlfriend to apply for jobs, and the general overbearing realities of intertwined family complexities and cultural readjustment create the “real life” setting for this novel. This was a nonstop, page-turning adventure from beginning to end. And they’ve decided that Jess is going to help them settle their score. And that voice is telling her that it’s her dead grandmother, Ah Ma, who has unfinished business in the living world involving a business magnate/gang boss who has offended a god called the Black Water Sister that Ah Ma acted as a medium for. On top of her stress about her parents’ health, where her life is going, the girlfriend she is too scared to tell her parents about, and the cultural/lingual separation she feels being back in Malaysia after so long in the United States, she starts hearing voices in her head.
When her parents decide to move back to Malaysia, Jessamyn, having graduated college but not really sure what her next steps are, decides to go with them. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years.”
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