author of contemporary fiction
C.S. Chan
My Friend from Raffles City is a 2024 IPPY medalist in the category of multicultural fiction.
While navigating her life as a minority for the first time, Lindsay, a white American woman, finds herself facing a daunting dilemma: should she hold on to her newfound love, or risk her life to prevent the onset of a family tragedy?
The Painter from Block 59
She does everything for everyone, only to learn that it still isn’t enough.
An old apartment building in Singapore is about to be demolished. But twenty-eight-year-old Jie-Li and her parents can’t afford a new place. When her job as a nurse becomes increasingly difficult, Jie-Li fears she can no longer support her ailing parents.
Thankfully, Mr. Kwok, a former neighbor, appears, offering Jie-Li good money to retrieve a family treasure he had left behind. Jie-Li charms her way into the apartment next door, where an American artist now lives, a naïve young man who aspires to travel the world. But as Jie-Li spends time in the apartment, repressed childhood memories of her painting pictures with Mr. Kwok begin to surface, forcing her to lose sight of her quest to save her family.
Will Jie-Li recover the treasure and stop her family from becoming homeless? Or will the truth behind her early years scar her for the rest of her life?
Creator of stories that ride on love
C.S. Chan is an award-winning writer of contemporary fiction. Her novels are led by strong, flawed, complex female characters, typically in a multicultural setting. Whether inspired by her Asian American experience, or her professional career as a scientist, educator, and hypnotist, she hopes to reach out to those who hear her words and something more that evokes from within.