{"product_id":"water-ghosts-isbn-9780143117278","title":"Water Ghosts","description":"\u003cb\u003e A mesmerizing debut novel that weaves history and mythology around a community of Chinese immigrants and the ghosts that haunt them\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women appear out of the mist in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River. Two are unknown to its residents, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor. As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, their frightening power is finally revealed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A lyrical imagining of what happens when a Chinese ghost story comes true, \u003ci\u003eWater Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich tale of human passions and mingling cultures that will appeal to readers of Lisa See, Anchin Min, and Gail Tsukiyama.Shawna Yang Ryan was born in Sacramento, California, and received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MA from the University of California, Davis. In 2002, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan. \u003ci\u003eWater Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published as \u003ci\u003eLocke 1928\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the 2008 Northern California Book Award. She currently lives in Berkeley.\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitle Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 32\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  34\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 36\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  38\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 39\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  40\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 41\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter  42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 43\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e NOTES ON RESEARCH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PENGUIN PRESS \u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Penguin Group \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, \u003cbr\u003eU.S.A. 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Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, \u003cbr\u003eLondon WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland \u003cbr\u003e(a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, \u003cbr\u003eCamberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin \u003cbr\u003eBooks India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, \u003cbr\u003eIndia Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand \u003cbr\u003e(a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, \u003cbr\u003e24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2009 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopyright © Shawna Yang Ryan, 2007\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published under the title \u003ci\u003eLocke 1928\u003c\/i\u003e by El Leon Literary Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from \u003ci\u003eThe Nobel Acceptance Speech\u003c\/i\u003e by Toni Morrison, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s Note \u003cbr\u003eThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the \u003cbr\u003eauthor’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, \u003cbr\u003ebusiness establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRyan, Shawna Yang, date. \u003cbr\u003eWater ghosts : a novel \/ Shawna Yang Ryan. \u003cbr\u003ep. cm.\u003cp\u003eeISBN : 978-1-101-01446-2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Chinese—California—Delta Region—Fiction. 2. Immigrants—California—Delta Region—\u003cbr\u003eFiction. 3. Locke (Calif.)—Fiction. 4. Delta Region (Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title. \u003cbr\u003ePS3618.Y344L63 2009 \u003cbr\u003e813’.6—dc22 2008029400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor my parents, Mike and Ellen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—TONI MORRISON  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobel lecture, December 7, 1993\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRINCIPAL CHARACTERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Fong (aka Fong Man Gum), \u003ci\u003emanager of the Lucky\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortune Gambling Hall\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eMing Wai, \u003ci\u003eRichard’s wife, one of three boat-women\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePoppy See (aka Po Pei), \u003ci\u003ebrothel madam, seer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eChloe Virginia Howell, \u003ci\u003ea prostitute in Madam See’s brothel,\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Fong’s lover\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eHowar Lee, \u003ci\u003epreacher\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCorlissa Lee, \u003ci\u003ewife of preacher Howar Lee\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSofia Lee, \u003ci\u003etheir only daughter, friend of Chloe’s\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSo Wai, \u003ci\u003eboat-woman\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSai Fung, \u003ci\u003eboat-woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMINOR CHARACTERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlfred, \u003ci\u003eChloe’s former lover\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBarrett, \u003ci\u003eChloe’s former admirer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eLee Bing, \u003ci\u003efounder of Locke\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTuffy Leamon, \u003ci\u003espeakeasy owner\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eUncle Happy, \u003ci\u003efarm laborer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCholly Wong, \u003ci\u003eill-fated rescuer of boat-women\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eManny Chow, \u003ci\u003egambler\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eMrs. Chow, \u003ci\u003ebootlegger, wife of Manny Chow\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eLau Sing Yan, \u003ci\u003eRichard Fong’s childhood friend and rival\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSarah, \u003ci\u003ePoppy See’s fellow dancer, adulteress\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe butcher, \u003ci\u003eSarah’s lover, murderer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eRuby Moore, \u003ci\u003eNew York jazz singer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eDavid Howell, \u003ci\u003eChloe’s brother\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eJack Yang, \u003ci\u003erestaurant owner\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eLucy Yang, \u003ci\u003eJack Yang’s wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Founding (1915)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHER MIND WAS taken with the thought of pussy willows. She saw them in the market, long cut stems emerging from a bucket of water, ten cents a bunch. Each fistful tied with string. Her eyes lingered over them as she stood in line with a can of condensed milk. She weighed the can in her hand as she thought about the willows—which vase she might use, which corner or tabletop they might decorate. She lived in a small apartment—kitchen crowding into dining area crowding into sitting space crowding into a room for a bed. That was all. 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