Now You See Us: A Novel

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Now You See Us: A Novel

Now You See Us: A Novel

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But when Florediza, another Filipina domestic worker is accused of murder, the three friends find themselves roped into a rogue investigation, despite their best efforts to avoid trouble. Barely out of her teens, this is Donita’s first time in Singapore, and she’s had the bad luck to be hired by the notoriously fussy Mrs. Her previous novels include Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award, and Sugarbread, a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the Singapore Literature Prize.

Korey is in adult prison and has the most difficult experiences, choosing the difficulty of isolation cells over repeated assaults by fellow inmates, supported by the cell guards.

She is placed with Elizabeth Lee, a widow whose compassion causes Cora more complications than she could have imagined. Some, like Donita, are abused, and almost all are treated like second-class citizens: tolerated and unacknowledged.

However, I was expecting more of a mystery and not a commentary, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I understand from the author's note that they are based on real people, but they came off like figures in a diorama.

A playful yet profound novel [that] moves easily from heartfelt to humorous…what may seem to be a singular story about first-generation London-bred Punjabi women evolves into a story universal to us all. The book makes an important statement on the treatment of workers, but I felt it could have been a better book if it was wound up more quickly. This book was completely different (Singapore vs London) but similarly presenting the perspective of a marginalized group (here domestic--mostly Filipino--staff, vs forgotten older women in Erotic Stories).



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