The Lies That Build a Marriage: Stories of the Unsung, Unsaid and Uncelebrated in Singapore

With this collection of short stories, Lim delves beneath Singapore 's prosperity and coded decorum to reveal genuine people facing difficult issues that are normally strictly taboo in Asia, such as the mother who discovers her son is gay; the daughter who learns her two mothers are lesbians; and the niece who finds her dead uncle dressed in his wife 's clothes.