This is easily one of the best novellas I have ever read. I love all the motives used in this short story. We have here the exploration of feminism by a young generation of women, the challenge of the idea of colonialism by religion, the motive of coming of age, and one's desire as something to embrace rather than cover in shame. All of that in a story of a girl possessed by a spirit with its agenda against humanity.
The way how the story fluently narrates is IMO one of the highlights because there is not a paragraph that is out of place. All of them carry some information. It describes events but also a social characterization of the people and environment. It gave another perspective on immigrant families that change the American dream for their children rather than themselves. The dream that sacrifices their own culture. The culture from a thousand years before the modernization of womanhood via shame and restraint. It was supposed to be a horror story, and I got significantly more than that.