Lake Like a Mirror

By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop," Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways.

In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation center for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics--a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 04/14/2020
ISBN: 9781931883986
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/16/2019
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2020 pg. 26
Foreword 02/26/2020
Booklist 02/15/2020 pg. 28