All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly a brother tests the possibility of flight. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail.
She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s body. Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.
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