2021/055: The Girl and the Ghost -- Hanna Alkaf

2021/055: The Girl and the Ghost -- Hanna Alkaf

Being Pink’s friend was like dancing on the edge of a precipice; it was fun, and you were on solid ground as long as you didn’t slip, but you worried about that line separating you from the darkness all the time. Being friends with Jing, by contrast, was like . . . just dancing, with a partner who matched your every move. [loc. 777]

Suraya is only a toddler when she inherits a pelesit, a ghost-demon, from her grandmother. When she's five, he makes himself known to her, and she decides that he must have a name. The pelesit, henceforth, is called Pink.

( no major spoilers )