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"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
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Feminist Press,at the City University of New York
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2022.
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"In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster; in a parallel narrative, a critic known as the Fourth Person explores the work of a writer also named Du Li An; in a third storyline, "you" are reading a novel titled The Age of Goodbyes in the wake of your mother's death. Li Zi Shu's debut novel THE AGE OF GOODBYES explores what happens to memory when official accounts...
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