[PREORDER] Ministry of Moral Panic

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Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards 2016 . Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction 2014 . Shortlisted for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Internationaler Literaturpreis . Shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s LiBeraturpreis . Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2014 . Selected by The Business Times as a Top 10 Singapore book from 1965–2015

Meet an over-the-hill pop yé-yé singer with a faulty heart; two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Find out the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh, now living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe; a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers; and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial, The Unbeatables.

Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice. Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are stories that plough the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens. 

About the Author
Amanda Lee Koe was born and raised in Singapore and has lived in New York, Beijing, Berlin and Bangkok. Her debut novel, Delayed Rays of a Star (Doubleday, 2019) was named a Most Anticipated Title by ELLE, Los Angeles Times, Thrillist, and USA Today, and one of NPR’s Best Books of The Year. Her first short story collection, Ministry of Moral Panic (2013), won the Singapore Literature Prize, and was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English books in Singapore from 1965–2015. She was previously fiction editor of Esquire Singapore.