Fatty: A Novel

A poignant coming-of-age novel inspired by martial arts films and family lore about powerful ghost brides

Fatty Wong is a streetwise eleven-year-old in 1960s colonial Hong Kong who dreams of ruling the world. She fights daily for a better life, but in an era of great political turmoil, Fatty faces struggles in the streets of her working-class village—and inside her own home. As the city’s youth begins protesting British rule and local communists mimic the Cultural Revolution that has ignited...