The Second Sister
Chan Ho-KeiAs anyone who read Chan Ho-Kei’s debut, The Borrowed, can tell you, this is an author who knows Hong Kong inside and out. While that previous title began in the 2000s and worked its way back through the history of the city’s twentieth century, the author’s newest stays firmly planted in the present, delivering an in-depth view of the ways in which technology has shaped contemporary Hong Kong society.
What caused fifteen-year-old Siu-Man to commit suicide? After her death at the beginning of this sprawling novel, her sister Nga-Yee is unconvinced that the girl had any reason to end her own life, despite an encounter with a serial groper, the witness testimony that put him behind bars, and the viral hate campaign targeting her in the aftermath. Nga-Lee suspects
