Ranked 1st on the Litprom Best List for World Receivers. Nominated for the LiBeraturpreis 2017. Contemporary, sexy, inventive, breathtaking: the highly praised and award-winning debut by Amanda Lee Koe. Just as cosmopolitan as the young author, her prose reflects this quality. The distinctive characters are clearly rooted in Singaporean everyday life, yet their themes and motifs are universal. The stories explore passions, dependencies, identity, and (lost) love. Koe narrates tales of outsiders, mavericks, individuals who must navigate a world thrown off balance. An unlikely couple decides to visit all the parks on the island during their dates; a man encounters a transgender person in a bar whom he had humiliated as a boy, and allows himself to be swept away; a waitress serves an aging television star whom she had loved as a little girl.