Amanda Lee   Koe
Meet an over-the-hill Pop YÃ©-yÃ© singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the GalÃ¡pagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial ,The Unbeatables,.,Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre. ,Ministry of Moral Panic, is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice.
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Ministry of Moral Panic