The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

Where did you do most of your reading for this one, and did you find yourself wanting a blanket, a light on, or company nearby?

Before we get into it: was there a moment where you had to put the book down for a second, not because it was scary, but because it got you somewhere soft?

Kim Fu tends to make the uncanny feel domestic, like something odd happening in a kitchen. Which small, ordinary detail in here stuck with you more than the strange parts did?

The title promises vengeance, but so much of Fu's writing is really about longing. Did this book feel angry to you, or sad, or somehow comforting? What made it land that way?

This book spends time with people who cannot quite let something go. Without going too deep unless you want to, is there a place, a season, or a house that still has a bit of a hold on you?

Fu often writes bodies and physical sensation very closely. Was there a passage where you felt it in your own body, a shiver or a held breath, and did that feel intrusive or strangely intimate?

By the time you got near the end, had your feelings about who deserved sympathy shifted at all? You do not have to say what happens, just whether your heart moved and when you noticed.

If you could sit down with one figure from this book and offer them tea and an hour of being listened to, who would you pick, and what would you want them to know?