Chopsticks

A student found dead with chopsticks through his eyes. A ghost bride determined to get her revenge. A curse that refuses to die. An unforgettable novel entwining East Asian legends about chopsticks.

In a quiet Japanese town, Amemiya grows fascinated with a new classmate. Every lunchtime Neko stabs his chopsticks upright in his bowl of rice, like a funeral offering. He confides that he is undertaking the forbidden Lord Chopsticks ritual, where after eighty-four days his greatest wish should be granted. Amemiya starts the ritual too, without realising that Lord Chopsticks demands a terrifying price.

In Taiwan, Big Sixs experience of a hex residing in a pair of coral chopsticks at first seems unrelated, as does the livestreamed death of Lailas boyfriend in Hong Kong, which causes an online frenzy around the urban legend of the vengeful Ghost Bride. But a darker force is at work than just coincidence, one that connects t