The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us

The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us is a powerful and elegant collection of stories from some of the best Chinese Canadian authors writing today. Assembled by Dan K. Woo, who was named a Canadian author to watch by CBC in 2022, the stories in the anthology span a wide variety of voices, experiences and styles. From the practised fielding of family questions by young women in a Hong Kong living room to a child's ghost searching for a way to move to the next world to a family living with the unsettling sounds of constant explosions in an industrial district on the edges of Beijing, each story is a stunning window into a world new to many North American readers.