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A pair of twins tries desperately to survive their education. A sentient oyster ponders the concept of making time. An unemployed man devises a social experiment with ants. A runaway sees a vision. From the 1990’s to a future where people access information through chips implanted in their heads, from the Singaporean heartland to London, San Francisco and the moon, these stories hold in tension the strangeness of displacement and a deep yearning for connection in their relentless search for who and what to call home.
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“This collection of short stories really speaks to the experience of in-betweenness for people who don’t feel as if they fully belong in the place they’re supposed to call home. Inez Tan’s perspective as somebody who straddles both insider and outsider status in Singapore gives the stories dimension, wit, and assuredness. It takes a bit of stepping back and observing from a distance, to be able to write truthfully about a place that feels familiar and foreign to many of us.”
—Balli Kaur Jaswal, bestselling author of Sugarbread, in “My Book of the Year 2019”, Singapore Unbound“There is much to admire about this collection: precision, humor, audacity. But what gives these stories depth is that, beneath the experimentation with form and tone is an emotional honesty that manifests in the telling details, in the occasional sentence that knocks you back, and in many of the stories’ endings, which are often sudden and bracing and true. This is the first I’ve read of Tan’s work, but it won’t be the last.”
—Charles Yu, acclaimed author of Sorry Please Thank You“What is it like to be caught between several cultures? Inez Tan’s spare, observant stories brilliantly capture the complexities of navigating multiple generations and cultures while searching for love, community, and one’s own identity. These are stories to cherish.”
—Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever“This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone is hilarious and heartbreaking on the nature of home, and on the fearsome and magnificent force of family, and especially about Singapore—a place as well as a state of mind, rendered with a devastating deadpan wit, enormous compassion and a furious love. This is a hugely impressive collection.”
—Jim Shepard, Story Prize-winning author of Like You’d Understand, Anyway“A beautifully well-written collection of poignant short stories about home and belonging. Inez Tan’s heartwarming authenticity will touch the heart of every Singaporean reader, no matter which corner of the world we currently reside in.”
—Ning Cai, bestselling author of Misdirection“This is Where I Won’t Be Alone marks the debut of a thrillingly inventive talent. Inez Tan’s stories of Singapore and Singaporeans—by turns knowingly affectionate and deeply affecting—positively shimmer with wit and insight.”
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Inez Tan holds a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from the University of Michigan, and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of California, Irvine. Her work has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Softblow, Rattle, Fairy Tale Review and the anthology A Luxury We Must Afford. This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone is her debut short story collection. Find her online at ineztan.com.
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