Author: O Thiam Chin
Publisher: MPH Publishing
ISBN: 9789675222467
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In this new collection of stories, O Thiam Chin has created a series of unforgettable, deeply-affecting portraits of individuals whose intersections of loves and losses mark the dawn of awareness and longing in their lives. Never Been Better illustrates his literary versatility in the assortment of characters who occupy the world of ambivalence and false optimism, yet still persist in trudging on with strength and resilience.
From free-spirited teenage runaways and a lonely child who collect dead animals to hidden family secrets and migrant workers who live squalid lives far away from home, these eclectic stories are heartbreaking haunting and rendered with a touch of grace, compassion and poignancy.
O Thiam Chin is a Singapore-born writer whose stories have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including Asia Literary Reviews, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Best of Singapore Erotica, Silverfish New Writing 6 and Body2Body. His debut collection of stories, Free-Falling Man, was published in 2006.
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