num_pages: 320
description: A brilliant and utterly engaging novelEmma set in modern Asiaabout a young womans rise in the glitzy moneyed city of Singapore where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.On the edge of twenty-seven Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher Imo and Fann. Before the year is out these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang mohWestern expathusbands with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp spunky and vulgarly brand-obsessed Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose.As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapores glamorous nightclubs and busy streets its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful stratified world she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asias financial and international capital will Jazzy and her friends succeed? Vividly told in Singlishcolorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slangSarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy but her city of Singapore to dazzling dizzying life.
language: English
title: Sarong Party Girls
publisher: William Morrow