Books and Boba
#303 - Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe
Published: 1 February 2025 at 02:30 UTC
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On this episode, we discuss our first book club pick of 2025, Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe, a modern re-imagining of the classic Chinese folktale The Legend of the White Snake, starring two immortal sisters who used to be best snake friends living along West Lake in Tang Dynasty China. When free-spirited Emerald is involved in an altercation with some cops in Central Park, conservative and pragmatic Su flies to NYC to whisk her sister away to her bastion of safety in Singapore, putting their co-dependent and often toxic centuries old relationship to the test once again.
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