“In her imagination, the long-haired ghost was walking in circles.“I went down into the ravine. I looked and looked. Oh, I was crazy with grief. If only I had found you, I would have taken your bones to the cave and given you a proper burial.”Ruth felt something touch her shoulder, and she jumped. “Ask her if she understood everything I just said,” LuLing ordered. “Ask her if my luck has changed. Is the curse over? Are we safe? Write down her answer.”What curse? Ruth now stared at the sand, half... believing the dead woman’s face would appear in a pool of blood. What answer did her mother want? Did Yes mean the curse was gone? Or that it was still there? She put the chopstick in the sand, and not knowing what to write, she drew a line and another below that. She drew two more lines and made a square.“Mouth!” her mother cried, tracing over the square. “That’s the character for ‘mouth’!” She stared at Ruth. “You wrote that and you don’t even know how to write Chinese!MoreLessRead More Read Less
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