Reading: The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

[white_hart]

Zen Cho's novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water is a wuxia-inspired* fantasy with roots in Malaysian colonial history. It's a charming story about what happens when a nun whose convent has been destroyed joins a group of wanted bandits in a country in the throes of an invisible civil war. It's delightfully queernormative and I loved Cho's use of Malay words and speech patterns. I'd really like to read more set in this world someday.

*I have to confess here that my entire experience of wuxia is currently being 12 episodes in to The Untamed.