Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions

by Kopi Soh

If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don't polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks. Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh's childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of 'wisdom' daily. She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814882100
• ISBN13: 9789814882101
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"