Sarong Party GirlsAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 12 July 2016
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A sensational and utterly engaging novelBreakfast at Tiffanys set in modernAsiaabout a young womans 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 havespectacular 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 towin.As she fervently pursues her quest to find the right husband, this driven yet tenderlyvulnerable gold digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensionsthrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapores glamorous nightclubs and busystreets, its grubby wet markets and crowded hawker centers. Moving through hercolorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of newmoney and old-world attitudes that threatens to crush her dreams. Can Jazzy use hercunning and good looks to rise up the ladder in Asias 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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