The ghost bride (2013)

Li Lan's family troubles make an offer of marriage to a dead man disturbingly attractive. In colonial Malacca in the 1890s, the bargain draws her into Choo's elaborate Chinese afterlife, where the living world's inequalities acquire further complications. Family status and a young woman's limited choices give the supernatural journey its stakes. Read it for the movement between domestic constraint and otherworldly adventure; the novel supplies the folklore you need.