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Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singerwith a faulty heart, two conservative middle-agedwomen holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietorof a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs ofheartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riotfodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaidin Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy workingOrchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring thestill-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial The Unbeatables.Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koeencompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety,moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbablenecessity of human connection. Told in strikingly originalprose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, thepossibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizensdiscursively, off-centre. Ministry of Moral Panicis an extraordinary debut collection and theintroduction of a revelatory new voice.Amanda Lee Koe is a 2013 honorary fellowat the Iowa International Writing Program.She is the fiction editor of Esquire(Singapore), editor of creative non-fictionmagazine POSKOD.SG, communicationsdirector at studioKALEIDO, and co-editorof the literary journal Ceriph. She co-editedEastern Heathens, an anthology subvertingAsian folklore. Her short fiction has beenpublished in Singapore, Hong Kong,Germany and the United States.ISBN-13: 978-981-07-5732-89 7 8 9 8 1 0 7 5 7 3 2 8www.epigrambooks.sg
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