The Waiting Room

A man's complicated relationship with his abusive mother seeks resolution when her spirit calls to him from beyond the grave. A sex worker finds temporary salvation with a returning Australian tourist professing his love. A dreamlike afterlife is the host to a vast museum dedicated to the discarded jetsam from the living world. In this debut fiction collection, these imagined worlds are set variously in plural Singapores, Southeast Asia and beyond, and illuminate the urgent need for human connection even beyond death.