The Arches of Gerrard Street - by Grace Chia (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The shooting of Molly's childhood friend in London's Chinatown has led her from Batu Pahat in Malaysia to the British capital to find answers. Who murdered him? And why? She soon becomes embroiled in a web of deceit spun in an immigrant enclave shrouded in secrecy as her past catches up on her. The Arches of Gerrard Street is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl from a small town thrust into a big city finding her way back to herself.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"It's clear from the prologue alone that Grace Chia has prepared a complex and diverse diasporic world for her readers. . . . Chia successfully captures London and its Chinatown, which come to life with every small and seemingly insignificant detail." --<i>Cha Journal</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Grace Chia is the author of three poetry collections, a couple of prose titles and non-fiction commissions. Her work has been widely anthologised from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong to the US, and translated into French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Serbo-Croat. She has been awarded writing residencies at Nanyang Technological University (with National Arts Council) and Toji Cultural Centre and Seoul Art Space Yeonhui in South Korea. Apart from being a judge of poetry competitions for the Golden Point Award, National Poetry Competition and The Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry, she has mentored writers for NAC and Sing Lit Station and taught creative writing at the university and pre-tertiary levels. The Arches of Gerrard Street is her second novel.
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