02201cam a2200421 i 4500 388448935 TxAuBib 20190806120000.0 180629s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250175458 1250175453 (OCoLC)1031551009 TxAuBib rda Choo, Yangsze,. The night tiger / Yangsze Choo. First edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. ℗2019. 372 pages : Hardcover ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance-hall girl to help pay off her mother's mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin plunges into a dark adventure: a mirror world of secrets and superstitions. Eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy Ren also has a secret, a promise he must fulfill to his dead master; to find his master's severed finger and bury it with his body. Ren has forty-nine days to do so, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever. Dazzling and propulsive, The Night Tiger is the coming-of-age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible.--book jacket. A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul. 20190806. 1900-1999. Dressmakers Fiction. Mother-daughter relationship Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Apprentices Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology. Superstition Fiction. FICTION / Literary. Fantasy fiction. Malaysia History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction.