Daughter of Calamity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250287380)

Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty.

Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit...

When a series of dancers are targeted--the attacker stealing their faces--Jingwen fears she could be next. And as the faces of the dancers start appearing on wealthy foreign socialites, she realizes Shanghai's glittering mirage of carefree luxury comes at a terrible price.

Fighting not just for her own safety but that of the other dancers--women who have simultaneously been her bitterest rivals and only friends--Jingwen has no choice but to delve into the city's underworld. In this treacherous realm of tangled alliances and ancient grudges, silver-armed gangsters haunt every alley, foreign playboys broker deals in exclusive back rooms, and the power of gods is wielded and traded like yuan. Jingwen will have to become something far stranger and more dangerous than her grandmother ever imagined if she hopes to survive the forces waiting to sell Shanghai's bones.

Author: Rosalie M. Lin
ISBN-10: 1250287383
ISBN-13: 9781250287380
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2024 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2024
Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 78
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 25