~ The Woman who Breathed Two Worlds, by Selina Siak Chin Yoke ~ This novel rather grew on me. At first, the sentences read rather flatly, pedestrian in their construction, and even the local cadences of the non-English educated (or...
A Tale of Two Sisters
Fear and Poverty
Mothers and Daughters, tensions and connections
Coming of age on the rocks
Beskuit on the veld, with a side of crime
Quiet desperation in the suburbs
Pilgrimage and Patriarchy
“The Filipina maid is a favourite among Singaporeans”
Survivor’s Guilt
Obscure and uninteresting
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