Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories
Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories Elaine Chiew's stories are inter-laced with humour, compassion and the importance of food and cooking, and the memories that meals evoke, as her characters…
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Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories
Elaine Chiew's stories are inter-laced with humour, compassion and the importance of food and cooking, and the memories that meals evoke, as her characters negotiate unfamiliar worlds, raise children in another country or introduce parents to partners who don't speak their language. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women--Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers. In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian man joins their group.
Her stories Elaine Chiew drills below the surface of her characters' circumstances with exemplary narrative skill and subtlety.
Sunstroke and Other Stories
Labels and Other Stories
Sneetches and Other Stories
Motherland and Other Stories
Eastmouth and Other Stories
Tobermory and Other Stories
Escape and Other Stories
Reality, and other stories
Thumbelina and Other Stories
Mud and Other Stories
Rashomon and Other Stories
Changeling, and Other Stories