Blue Sky Mansion Condition:Very Good his catapult into alcoholism after

his catapult into alcoholism after his father's untimely death

he hates his job making up celebrity gossip

including: "Rubberneck the Room

and Thum Ping Tjin

--[Back to me] --Bad feminist: take one --Bad feminists

Blue Sky Mansion Condition:Very Good his catapult into alcoholism afterFinalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. After breaking out of an impregnable tomb deep underground, five year old Mei Choon is trapped in a city locked down in the grip of the plague. She leaves China for British Malaya where, coming of age, she escapes a house of ill repute through grit and guile. World War II catches up with Mei Choon, the woman. When the British flee Penang in a "whites only" train, she finds herself in the thick of the