Sarong party girls :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
9 audio discs (11 1/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged. Retail edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2016]
Summary
A brilliant and utterly engaging novel about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.
Call Number
CD FICTION TAN
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062573544
Sarong party girls
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
308 pages ; 24 cm
Edition
First Edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Summary
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.
Call Number
FIC/TAN
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062448965
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