Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng: A Novel Ridley Pearson THE NEW YORKER

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Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers

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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng: A Novel Ridley Pearson THE NEW YORKERIn this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic. Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when shes already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before