The Sequel to My Grandpa’s Paper Effigy Shop

A new work is out! You are welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you will enjoy them. Your support is my motivation to tell the story of Yang Bo, a paper effigy craftsman from Wangchuan Town who inherits his grandfather's skills and opens Yang's Paper Effigy Shop in Penang, Nanyang. It begins when he helps his grandaunt resolve a supernatural incident at her old home, drawing him into a series of strange tales of the living and the dead spanning Penang and Singapore: the spirit of a child wandering in a well, the lingering obsession of a seafarer attached to a rosewood object, an old female opera performer’s ghost haunting the backstage, the remnant soul of a woman who died in childbirth, waiting for her daughter in a medicine shop...

Yang Bo uses paper as his medium and bamboo strips as his framework, employing the skills passed down by his grandfather to soothe obsessions and settle old grievances. Amid Nanyang's humid sea breeze, he witnesses the joys and sorrows of Chinese people who crossed the ocean. Through paper figures and paper boats, he also comes to understand the true meaning of