Looking After The Ashes
OLD WIVES' TALES, TABOOS, SUPERNATURAL AND CHILDHOOD SUPERSTITIONS
$23.93
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2021
Summary
A book of superstitious old wives tales, supernatural events, and taboos.
If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don’t polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks.
Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh’s childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of ‘wisdom’ daily. She used to live …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789814882101 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9814882100 |
| Author: | Kopi Soh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Kopi Soh
Kopi Soh is the pseudonym of a US based Malaysian author and illustrator best known for her book Oh, I Thought I Was The Only One. She founded the Facebook community ‘Stick It To Me’, a page centered around producing ‘healing art’ for the terminally sick and needy, and organizes a group of volunteers to produce art for hospitals and charities. Her work with ‘Stick It To Me’ was recognized in the Digi WWWOW Awards 2015, winning an award in the Social Gathering category. She also served as the official illustrator for TEDxWeldQuay 2013.
Kopi Soh’s first book, Oh, I Thought I Was The Only One, published by Dawning Victory Consultancy in 2012, is a self-help book oriented towards creating awareness of common psychological issues which manifest in daily life. In 2013, Kopi Soh published her second book, Oh, I Thought I Was the Only One 2, a sequel focusing on how children experience various stresses in their daily lives and teaching them skills on how to overcome them.
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