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Lindsay has always known Singapore for its food, skyscrapers, and smart people. And now she knows a secret that could upend her world.
Lindsay Trapp, a promising scientist from Iowa, finds herself friendless after five lonely months in Singapore. Stuck living with her landlady’s dysfunctional family, she loses hope for happiness. Then, along comes a psychic who offers Lindsay her friendship, plus a love potion she claims cannot fail. Before long, a man of incredible fame and charm swoops into Lindsay’s life. It’s an improbable romance, yet magically perfect.
But the psychic friend has a secret Lindsay has promised to keep. A secret that could wreak tragedy in the landlady’s family. Should Lindsay expose her friend and save the people she lives with? Or bury the secret and keep her lover? My Friend from Raffles City is a heart-stirring page-turner, where a woman’s quest for happiness turns into a gamble with love.
My Friend from Raffles City is a 2024 IPPY medalist in the category of multicultural fiction.
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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?
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Thirty-seven-year-old Pearl can’t look at computer screens. Not without becoming severely ill. For someone living the bustling city life in Singapore, it means there is no hope for career or a decent social life.
Refusing to be entrapped in a world run by computers and cell phones, Pearl dreams of a simple life on an island far away. But life throws her a lifeline when she befriends a patron to her noodle stall, an influential expat from Australia, a single dad with a precocious child.
Things I’d Rather Be is a gripping story of a woman’s struggle in a world she has already moved beyond.