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The Waiting Room

By Choo Yi Feng
The Waiting Room by Choo Yi Feng digital book - Fable

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A man seeks resolution when the spirit of his abusive mother calls from the grave. A sex worker finds temporary salvation with a returning Australian tourist professing his love. The afterlife plays host to a vast museum dedicated to jetsam from the living world. In this debut fiction collection, these imagined worlds are set variously in plural Singapores, Southeast Asia and beyond, and illuminate the urgent need to connect even after death.

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4.5
“Choo’s collection of short stories features distinctive, deeply sympathetic characters that will tug at your heartstrings, following each persona through their own tragic tales of love lost and societal rejection. The characters in The Waiting Room are no heroes; they simply exist, each grappling with their own hidden struggles and societal invisibility.”
“An excellent collection of short stories; vivid, relatable and disturbing at the same time.”

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