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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

The Singing Hills Cycle #2

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Nghi Vo

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December 8, 2020

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A novella.

"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful.... The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." — NPR

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover — a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty — and discover how truth can survive becoming history.

Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and The Singing Hills Cycle in this mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.

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Nghi Vo

Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois, and she retains a healthy respect of and love for corn mazes, scarecrows, and fifty-year floods. These days, she lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, which is less a lake than an inland sea that she is sure is just biding its time. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange…

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