Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

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A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—”Emma” set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.

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  • “Told in a really wonderful patois with Asian rhythms … it’s just a delight to read.”
    —NBC

  • “Tan paints a stark portrait, comic yet chilling, of a society in which a young woman who seeks a way out risks falling in too deep.”
    —Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes

  • “Utterly irresistible…Tan is saying something profound and insightful about the place of women in our globalized, capitalized, interconnected world.”
    — Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being

  • “A joy to read…An eye-opening exploration of ways of thinking in an exploitative male world that is untouched by feminism.”
    — Asian Review of Books

  • “Very funny, irreverent, sharp-eyed debut novel about women using their sexual power to better their lives in a country driven by money…Jazzy’s voice is the heart and soul of the book: tart, spirited, brazen, naive, knowing.”
    —Slate

  • “In Singapore this satirical novel of predatory beauties would be regarded as deeply subversive – for the rest of us, and anyone familiar with life in that little island city state, it is hilarious and original.”
    —Paul Theroux

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“Delicious intergenerational food memoir.”
—The Wall Street Journal

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“The 14 contributors to this all-original anthology, Singapore natives and non-natives alike, expose the Asian city state in all its noir glory.”
–Publisher’s Weekly

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