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Can I read Bestiary on EtoBox?
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bestiary about?
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her neighbor, a girl named Ben with mysterious powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies an old Taiwanese myth—and that she will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny.With a poetic voice of...
Who reads Bestiary?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- K-Ming Chang
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fantasy, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.49 / 5 (223 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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