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A Singapore girl tells the story of growing up in her grandmother's household during the turbulent years of the sixties and seventies when communism was threatening her homeland
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"Richly layered. . . . Cheong evokes not only the political friction [of Singapore] but also a family history built from equal parts of mythology, tradition, and rebellion."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Charged and poetic. . . . A story exquisitely poised between the specific and the mythic, delicately narrated and profoundly resonant."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Charged and poetic. . . . A story exquisitely poised between the specific and the mythic, delicately narrated and profoundly resonant."--"Publishers Weekly""
"Richly layered. . . . Cheong evokes not only the political friction [of Singapore] but also a family history built from equal parts of mythology, tradition, and rebellion."--"Kirkus Reviews""
"Charged and poetic. . . . A story exquisitely poised between the specific and the mythic, delicately narrated and profoundly resonant."--Publishers Weekly
"Richly layered. . . . Cheong evokes not only the political friction [of Singapore] but also a family history built from equal parts of mythology, tradition, and rebellion."--Kirkus Reviews
Fiona Cheong is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of the novel Shadow Theatre.Leslie Bow is a professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0393310124
- ISBN 13 9780393310122
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