Daughter of Calamity

In Jazz-Age Shanghai, Jingwen dances at the cabaret by day and runs errands for a powerful gang by night. But when a mysterious attacker steals faces from her fellow dancers, Jingwen is plunged into a world of wealthy businessmen, silver-limbed gangs and vengeful gods as she tries to uncover the culprit.

Lin''s Shanghai invites you in with an open hand or an offer to dance; here, every page is full of glamour , possibility, treachery. Daughter of Calamity will pull you in like a fever dream

Autorentext
Rosalie M. Lin is a Chinese-American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has, at various points in the past decade, graduated with a degree in Comparative Literature, pole-danced in two Beijing nightclubs and dropped out of a biomedical PhD program, before seriously pursuing her original dream of becoming an author. Daughter of Calamity is her debut novel.