from the back cover: Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories from China, Malaysia, Singapore, and India, are by writers Liu Hong, Attia Hosain, Preeta Samarasan, Hwee Hwee Tan, Ridjal Noor, Shashi Deshpande, Ovidia Yu, Nora Adam, Nirupama Subramanian, and Catherine Lim. [word count 28,539]
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriends a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be t…
Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her side, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fro tune. With all parties vying to inherit a trophy estate in the heart of Singapore, Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of sabotage and scandal. Taking us f…