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Sarong party girls / Cheryl Lu-lien Tan.

Summary:

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.

"On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for herself and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to expat ang moh-- Caucasian-- husbands... Razor-sharp, spunky, and cheerfully brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a woman who plays to win. As she fervently pursues her quest to find the right husband, this driven yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and crowded hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes that threatens to crush her dreams. Can Jazzy use her cunning and good looks to rise up the ladder in Asia's international capital? Vividly told in Singlish-- colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang-- Sarong Party Girls captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds..."--Page 2 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062448965
ISBN: 006244896X
Physical Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016.