The More Known World (The Oddfits #2)
Tiffany Tsao2 years after Murgatroyd Floyd joined the Quest to understand & catalogue the wonders of the More Known World, the rash-prone, blue-eyed Oddfit starts having doubts about his exploratory skill. And while that's enough to give his mentor, Ann Hsu, pause, it's not what's bringing the Quest to a grinding halt. Blame that on a series of murders that sends Ann & Murgatroyd to a strange new Territory to investigate. Cambodia-Abscond, awash in shades of red, can drive outsiders crazy. With its vermilion foliage, crimson trees, & garnet soil, it screams carnage.
Fitting, considering that its settlers are a shady bunch with catastrophic histories who live in a society where no questions are asked, & the official language is silence. Fitting, too, that Cambodia-Abscond is where Ann's recollections of her own nightmarish past seem to come crawling back out of the bloodwood. Apparently, there's more to the More Known World than Ann & Murgatroyd expected. And if their Quest has a dark side, the two Oddfits have found it.
Tiffany Tsao is a writer, translator, & literary critic. She spent her formative years in Singapore & Indonesia before moving to the US, where she graduated with a BA from Wellesley College & received a PhD in English from UC Berkeley. She currently resides in Sydney, Australia. Her debut novel, The Oddfits, was published in 2016, & her writing & translations have appeared in Asymptote, Asia Literary Review, LONTAR, the Sydney Review of Books, & the anthology BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016. Her translation of poetry by the Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu was one of the 6 winning entries in the 2016 Pen Presents . . . East & Southeast Asia competition, & her translation of Eka Kurniawan’s short story “Caronang” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.