Max asked Yangsze Choo:

I absolutely loved reading Ghost Bride. The setting of colonial-era Malaysia was utterly captivating. I’m from the region myself. The colonial times can be, well, emotionally stirring, but you have done something truly unique with this one. I really hope you write a sequel to the novel. Until then, can you perhaps recommend fans other books like Ghost Bride, in the sense of the setting and the mythology?

Yangsze Choo Hi Max,

Thank you for your lovely encouragement! How nice to hear from a fellow SE Asian :) I've been busy working on novel #2 (not a sequel, I'm afraid, but a murder mystery set in 1930s colonial Malaya), but I hope you'll enjoy it as well. In terms of other books with the same mythology, Lisa See's Peony in Love is also set in the Chinese afterlife, though in China and not in Malaysia. Another book that I enjoyed reading as a collection of Asian ghost stories (set in Japan however), is Miyuki Miyabe's Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo.

Hope that helps, and best wishes!

Yangsze

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