by Hsu-Ming Teo

In the suburbs of Sydney, three young friends grapple with issues of identity, ethnicity, and sexuality in Hsu-Ming Teo's rich and moving second novel. Justin Cheong comes from a wealthy Singaporean family that cannot accept his homosexuality, Nigel 'Gibbo' Gibson craves the traditionalist Asian family way of life, and the half-black half-Vietnamese Tien feels caught between her traditional mother and the freedoms of Australia. Together the friend make their precarious way through the unscripted drama of being young immigrants in the contemporary world.