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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Sarong Party Girls

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (author)

Paperback Published on: 01/08/2019

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Synopsis

Just before her twenty-seventh birthday, Jazzy hatches a plan. Before the year is out, she and her best girlfriends will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh - Western expat - husbands, with Chanel babies to follow.

As Jazzy - razor-sharp and vulgar, yet vulnerable - fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs are revealed. Desperate to move up in Asia's financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed?

Vividly told in Singlish - colourful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang - Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of a young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.

Publisher information

Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781911630302
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm
Languages: English

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The choices we make...

3.5* This book completely took me by surprise. Written in dramatic prose with well drawn characters, you feel like you get to know them very fast. We have ... READ MORE

Helena

Asian Briget Jones

Sarong Party Girls is set in modern day Singapore. It describes in great detail the unique lifestyle of this city.The main character Jazzy and her friends ... READ MORE

Joanna Beard

Fun summer read

This book reminds me of a soap opera - fun and fast pace with lots of twists and cliffhangers. If you enjoyed Crazy Rich Asians then I think you'll love th... READ MORE

cheese thief

A wannabe Asian Austen

Meet Jazzy – she’s a girl who likes to play hard with her gang of friends. Once of her friends, though, recently got married to the wrong sort of man. A po... READ MORE

liccyh

Undecided

This wasn’t the style of book I would usually read but I always like to broaden my horizons and branch out. The story of Jazzy and her friends and their at... READ MORE

Sara Scott

Powerful, insightful and relevant

I read Sarong Party Girls last week and enjoyed it, but it's taken a little longer to realise just how good it was and that it has stayed with me. It's a p... READ MORE

Cathy Ann

A Sarong Party Girl’s path to self-discovery as traditional Singaporean society clashes with modern materialism.

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes a look at the lives of women in Asia as old traditions and the patriarchal structure conflict with materialism and the ambitions o... READ MORE

Valerie Hall

undecided

I still cant decide if I really enjoyed this one or not!? At first I thought it would be a bit like Crazy Rich Asians but then found it more leaning toward... READ MORE

Zoe Woodend

Not for me

Sarong Party Girls is a book that I was unsure about but intrigued to read as it sounded like such a fun and unique read. It is about a girl called Jazzy w... READ MORE

Jade Hewlett

Insightful

"Sarong Party Girls" is a fun and witty novel about the life of Jazzy and her friends on a quest of finding an "ang moh" (very wealthy Western) husband. Th... READ MORE

Patrycja Makowska

so interesting!

This book is so interesting in so many ways! the story is so gripping and its such a page turner but amongst it all its so educational in regards to the cu... READ MORE

victoria fellows

Disappointing.

Razor-sharp and vulgar but also vulnerable, almost twenty-seven-year-old Jazzy comes up with a plan. By the end of the year she and her three best friends,... READ MORE

Linda Hepworth

Engaging read

This book tracks three friends in Singapore as they navigate their way through bars, clubs, friendships and family in the quest for an "Ang moh" husband, w... READ MORE

Lucy Holliday

A hilarious read!

If "Sex and the City" and "Crazy Rich Asians" had a baby, its name would be "Sarong Party Girls"! An absolute delight! Hilarious, truthful to the author's ... READ MORE

Patricia Pimenta

Sarong Party Girls

The book is a slow burner and I read all of it to see if it got better, however it didn't get any better, the title is good and the front cover is good. I ... READ MORE

Tina Dunn

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