A CHRONICLE OF LOST SOULS, MISFITS, AND SINNERS

These stories explore transcendence and grief, and the search for redemption. The characters in this anthology are people we all know. People like ourselves— searching and yearning, often in the wrong places for something meaningful and real.

A real-estate agent tries to sell a home to a feuding couple while his own marriage is being tested; a divorcee resigned to drink and watching television rediscovers the pleasures of life with another woman. A mother pays a terrible price when ambition blinds her own parental duty.

In these stories, what is excavated and revealed lies at the heart of Singaporean lives.

About the Author

Patrick Sagaram’s work has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) and Wine & Dine. His short stories have appeared in Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 4 and Volume 6 and included in How We Live Now (2022), commissioned by the Ministry of Education as a GCE O-Level Literature text. His stories have also been anthologized in the collection Quiet Loving, Ravaging Search - 20 Years of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. He has also contributed to the non-fiction collection Letter to my Father (2022) edited by Felix Cheong. He lives in Singapore and works as a teacher.