17A Keong Saik Road LONTAR • the harsh realities of

• the harsh realities of living as a refugee within a calorie-based economy by acclaimed award-winner Paolo Bacigalupi

Quek Hong Shin has illustrated several picture books including The Amazing Sarong

[by] one of the most fervent food lovers on any continent

speculations and visionary expectations of Singapore's future in 50 years' time

chef-owner of Wild Rocket

17A Keong Saik Road LONTAR • the harsh realities ofDescription About the Author "Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A" 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leungs growing up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of Charmaine's mothers journey as a young child put up for sale, who would later become the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding