Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Sarong Party Girls (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A sensational and utterly engaging novelBreakfast at Tiffany's set in modern Asiaabout a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism

On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to expat ang mohcaucasianhusbands, with Chanel babies (half-white childrenthe ultimate status symbol) quickly to follow.

Razor-sharp, spunky, and cheerfully brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a woman who plays to win. As she fervently pursues her quest to find the right husband, this driven yet tenderly vulnerable gold digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and crowded hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes that threatens to crush her dreams. Can Jazzy use her cunning and good looks to rise up the ladder in Asia's international capital?

Vividly told in Singlishcolorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slangSarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062448989
• Artikelnr.: 44125974

Autorenporträt

Born and raised in Singapore, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New Yorkbased journalist and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, and edited the fiction anthology Singapore Noir. She has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, InStyle magazine, and the Baltimore Sun.