Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

“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