The White Kami: A Novel

A restless young woman’s yearning for romance propels an episodic tale that moves from domestic routine to sea voyages and exotic, often perilous settings. Romantic entanglements, theatrical ambitions, and devised stratagems bring honeymoon comforts, quarrels, opium-suggestive enchantments, and encounters that test loyalties and fortunes. Scenes shift between light comedy and melodramatic danger—dawn sailings, jungle graves, public spectacles—while recurring themes of desire, fate, and social expectation reshape relationships and produce reversals of status and bittersweet reckonings.