{"product_id":"fox-spirit-on-a-distant-cloud-by-lee-murray-9781988595771","title":"Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman ‘falls’ from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came to Aotearoa for a new life and suffered isolation and prejudice in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChinese Pākehā writer Lee Murray has taken the nine-tailed fox spirit \u003cem\u003ehúli jīng\u003c\/em\u003e as her narrator to inhabit the skulls of these women and others like them and tell their stories. \u003cem\u003eFox Spirit on a Distant Cloud\u003c\/em\u003e is an audacious blend of biography, mythology, horror and poetry that transcends genre to illuminate lives in the shadowlands of our history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853553815788,"sku":"9781988595771","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/59db29e87fe4c8e9e48464112f5ae92d.jpg?v=1759260193","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/fox-spirit-on-a-distant-cloud-by-lee-murray-9781988595771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}