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02449aam a2200325 i 4500 001 EF97646C56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 221020t20222022si 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9815058061 020 $a 9789815058062 035 $a (OCoLC)1348277518 040 $a SINLB $b eng $e rda $c SINLB $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d NUI $d SILO 100 1 $a O, Thiam Chin, $e author. 245 10 $a We are not alone here / $c O Thiam Chin. 264 1 $a Singapore : $b Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, $c 2022. 300 $a 173 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "An unnamed young woman and her companion strike up a conversation in the dark in a quiet room, in the middle of nowhere. As they talk, the young woman starts to open up her life, to talk about her past and childhood, growing up in a single-parent household under poor impoverished conditions, living under the cold, steely eye of an estranged and manipulative mother who physically and emotionally abused her. The woman gradually divulges the lies and secrets that have plagued her life from a very young age, and how all of it has led her to make hard choices along the way: to be a mistress to her boss at her first job, to have a child out of wedlock, to rear a child all on her own and then to tragically lose him in a drowning. The truth becomes stranger and more complicated as the woman continues to tell her story, braiding and twisting the facts and sequence of events as she narrates, that soon reveals a long unvoiced history of pain and violence and deception, that ultimately culminates in her committing a series of horrific and terrible acts. What has seemed clear and straightforward at the start of the woman's story soon becomes a strange febrile dream that holds the woman and her companion in a complicit, unbreakable spell"--Back cover. 650 0 $a Young women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Single-parent families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Singaporean fiction (English) 650 7 $a Singaporean fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01432192 650 7 $a Single-parent families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119481 650 7 $a Young women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01183301 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Thrillers (FIction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032305.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF97646C56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search