{"product_id":"fox-spirit-on-a-distant-cloud-9781988595771","title":"Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea scullery; ten years later another woman ‘falls’ from the second\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003efloor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came to Aotearoa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor a new life and suffered isolation and prejudice in silence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChinese Pākehā writer Lee Murray has taken the nine-tailed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003efox spirit húli jīng as her narrator to inhabit the skulls of these\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewomen and others like them and tell their stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFox Spirit on a Distant Cloud is an audacious blend of biography,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emythology, horror and poetry that transcends genre to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eilluminate lives in the shadowlands of our history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTrigger warnings for suicide, violence and mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49214061576443,"sku":"9781988595771","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/27136-batemanbooks_jpg.webp?v=1787467722","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/fox-spirit-on-a-distant-cloud-9781988595771","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}