<p><b>Winner of the LA Times/Ray Bradbury Prize</b><br></p> <p>Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. <i>Spirits Abroad</i> is an expanded edition of Zen Cho's Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again." A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth spirit gets entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord, and Chang E spins off into outer space, the ultimate metaphor for the Chinese diaspora.</p>