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#334 - Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

NOV 3, 202572 MIN
Books and Boba

#334 - Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

NOV 3, 202572 MIN

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Join us as we discuss our October 2025 book club pick, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker, a Chinese American horror story taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic following Cora Zeng, a crime scene cleaner haunted by the trauma of witnessing her sister's murder in a NYC subway station, as well as what appears to be her sister's actual hungry ghost. We follow Cora and her co-workers on a blood-soaked quest as they try to simultaneously figure out how to exorcise her ghost, as well as solve a series of serial murders in NYC, all involving East Asian women.

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The Books & Boba November 2025 book club pick is Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang, translated by Lin King

This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective