About this ebook
As these fellow travellers cross the continent of the next four decades, their relationships with each other transform in complexity against a backdrop of social and political engineering. Min Chan is detained under the Internal Security Act. Shu Peng becomes complicit in the machinations of the ruling party. And Martin comes out of the closet during the 2011 general election.
Even as the characters’ lives are shaped by events of the day, they also push back to shape a better future for themselves, as well as for the country.
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About the author
Wong Souk Yee is the author of Death of a Perm Sec (finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize and 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction) and a former political detainee, who contested the 2015 General Election as a member of the Singapore Democratic Party. She also co-founded the now-defunct theatre group Third Stage. In 1987, she was detained for allegedly taking part in a Marxist conspiracy against the government; she later co-wrote and co-directed the play Square Moon, staged in 2013, about detention without trial. Wong holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from UNSW Sydney.
