Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe

A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Amanda Lee Koe

Subgenres:

Short Stories,
Singapore,
LGBTQ+ Fiction

Published 2013

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Singapore stories that blend pop culture, history, and outsider perspectives
Characters wrestling with prestige anxiety and moral gray zones
Offbeat, sexy fiction with sharp, original prose

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Winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction | Winner of the 2016 Singapore Book Award for Best Fiction

Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak.

Rehash national the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial The Unbeatables.

Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection.

Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre.

Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice.

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