A coming-of-age story in which Eric, at odds with his parents and their values, sets out to find his never-mentioned paternal grandmother. From the author of prize-winning memoir "Gotong Royong".
Winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for Kampong Spirit: Gotong Royong, her memoir of growing up in a village in Singapore in the 50s and 60s, Josephine Chia graduated with an honours degree in Philosophy (reading English and Philosophy) from the University of Singapore in 1979 and later achieved a Masters in Creative Writing at the Bath Spa University College (UK). She was one of the twelve winners of the Ian St. James Awards for short fiction in 1992, and the first Singaporean to win that award. Since then, she has also gathered other awards and prizes for her short stories.
