The Seven Channels of Koh Pru

About this book

Twenty years after leaving Koh Pru, Naya agrees to tell her estranged father what happened during the monsoon season when she was twelve. On an overnight ferry from Phuket, she recalls inheriting the feared title of Bone Reader after her grandmother is found dead among mangrove roots, a carved barracuda jawbone clutched in her hands. As more elders die and the police dismiss the deaths as poisoned water, Naya turns to her grandmother’s cryptic journal and the island’s ancient practice of reading fish bones for truth. Her investigation draws her through flooded channels, family silences, and the enduring shadow of the Great Drowning of 1979, forcing her to decide what a child can risk when every adult seems determined to keep the past buried.

Book details

Genres:

Mystery, Tropical Gothic, Historical Conspiracy

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-16

Content rating:

R