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    "description": "Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.\n\nOne evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman\u2019s body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother\u2019s letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a myth\u2013and that she will have to bring her family\u2019s secrets to light in order to change their destiny.",
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