SARONG PARTY GIRLS / CHERYL LU - LIEN TAN
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First EditionDescription: 308 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 006244896X (hardcover)
- 9780062448965 (hardcover)
- 9780062499394 (softcover)
- 0062499394 (softcover)
- 9780062499394
- International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- Fashion -- Singapore -- Fiction
- Dating (Social customs) -- Singapore -- Fiction
- Dating (Social customs) -- Singapore -- Fiction
- Fashion -- Singapore -- Fiction
- International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Family Life
- Dating (Social customs)
- Fashion
- International business enterprises -- Social aspects
- Singaporean fiction
- Women -- Singapore -- Fiction
- Singapore -- Fiction
- Singapore
- Singapore -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
- PS3620.A6833 S27 2016
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Perpustakaan Alor Setar | RFID | Pinjaman Dewasa | 813.6 TAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | H041495 | Available | A00738495 |
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 have spectacular weddings to expat ang moh-- caucasian-- husbands, with Chanel babies (half-white children--the ultimate status symbol) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and cheerfully brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a woman who plays to win. As she fervently pursues her quest to find the right husband, this driven yet tenderly vulnerable gold digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and crowded hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes that threatens to crush her dreams. Can Jazzy use her cunning and good looks to rise up the ladder in Asia's international capital? Vividly told in Singlish-- colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang-- Sarong 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.--Page 2 of cover.
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