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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Catherine Lim

Tags: romance singapore maids

Description: 2001. Love in modern-day Singapore where Yin Ling, a beautiful talented poet, engaged to one2001. Love in modern-day Singapore where Yin Ling, a beautiful talented poet, engaged to one of the most eligible bachelors in Singapore, Vincent Chee, is distracted by Ben Gallagher, an American academic who appreciates her poetry like no one else. Yin Ling still marries Vincent, but her relationship with Ben continues underground and from a distance. Meanwhile Yin Ling's old servant Ah Heng Cheh creates another storyline -- through Yin Ling's poetry and her relationship with Ben. Different gods, different cultures, the tantalizing prospect of different lives. Cop-out ending in ways. Yin Ling does leave Vincent and their son, but then dies in an airplane crash, leaving Ben to try to keep her memory alive. Best for its descriptions of Singapore culture....