Reed’s Recommendation Corner: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
A mysterious girl. An aging detective. Revenge. Foxes? In an absorbing tale that takes place in 1900s Manchuria, we are brought to a world that clashes between Chinese folklore and the encroaching modernities of the Western world. Welcome to The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo. The world is not an easy one for Snow, as both a fox and a woman. After the loss of her cub, she decides to search out the one who was responsible for its death. This book switches between her perspective and that of Bao, an aging private investigator with the ability to tell when someone is lying. Their stories are inexorably intertwined, even if one seems always just a step behind the other. Snow spends her time telling of her search for a photographer (a relatively new technology) was responsible for the death of her cub, while Bao is contracted to investigate the strange death of a working girl. As Snow (or Ah-San, as her employer calls her) tells her story as part history, part lesson on how foxes live, Bao fi
