Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng : Kylie Lee Baker

A Darkly Funny, Gory, and Ghostly Horror Novel Hardcover | 304 pages Fiction / Horror This unsettling adult debut from Kylie Lee Baker follows a biracial crime scene cleaner who’s haunted by both her inner trauma and hungry ghosts as she's entangled in a series of murders in New York City's Chinatown. BAT EATER follows a biracial woman haunted by both her own inner trauma and hungry ghosts as she’s entangled in a series of murders in NYC’s Chinatown. Parasite meets The Only Good Indians in this sharp novel that explores harsh social edges through the lens of the horror genre. Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner in New York City’s Chinatown, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: in the early months of 2020, her sister Delilah was pushed in front of a train as Cora stood next to her. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater.