Coraline "Cora" Zeng lives in New York with her half-sister Delilah, who is beautiful and arty and dreams of becoming a famous model, when the pandemic begins. After witnessing Delilah is pushed in front of a subway train by a stranger who shouts "bat eater" at her, Cora becomes a crime scene cleaner and starts noticing a majority of murder victims she's cleaning off the walls all seem to be young East-Asian women. 

Is Cora going off the walls and imagining being followed by creepy ghosts that remind you of the yall ma from It Follows, or is she truly being haunted? Sometimes, I wondered if she was a reliable narrator, and it's easy to make that assessment with a heroine who suffers from OCD and cleans "people's entrails for a living". While I don't typically read books set in the real world during Covid 19, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.