Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories

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ISBN: 9781912408368

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Chiew, Elaine
Pub Date	23/01/2020
Binding	Paperback
Pages	256

Publisher: myriad editions

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Set in different cities around the world--Hong Kong, Miami, New York, London, Ipoh and Singapore--Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean-Malaysian diaspora, and ask what it means to be 'Chinese' or 'Asian' within the context of dual, or hyphenated, identities.

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In the title story (runner-up in the 2018 UK Bridport Prize) four Asian writers are flummoxed by the sexual shenanigans that start when a handsome young Asian writer joins their support group. In other stories, three Singaporean daughters welcome their mother on a first visit to London and quarrel over steamboat; a Chinese woman raps about being a Tiger Mother; an elderly Chinese woman finds that it isn't race that estranges, but the inability to tell the truth; and an ethnic writer takes on Eastern mythology in a metaphoric quest to understand the anxiety of Western literary influence.