

A 16-yr-old boy from KL meets 19-yr-old free spirit on his family farm, and they‘re both gay. Jay comes to the country with his strained family. Chuan, strained with his own father, works at a local 7/11 in a nearby town where he knows everyone on the street. Coming of age, family and rural Malaysia probably in the later 1990‘s. It isn‘t fast, and it‘s maybe the softest of the #Booker books I‘ve read. But it works, it lingers.
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