Title: To know where im coming from
First published: 2007
Description: Lee's indirect sequel to Peculiar Chris. About a gay emigrant returning to his homeland to heal from a broken heart.

Rated 5 stars out of 6 by Time Out and 3 stars out of 5 by The Sunday Times.

"A gripping story of love, caught between the gay worlds of London and Singapore, unashamedly describing queer life as it is today: sexy and sordid, romantic and political, frustrated and ecstatic." 
- Ng Yi-Sheng, poet and playwright

"Hauntedly captivating and quietly powerful. Set against a diorama of nostalgia and irresistible change, Lee observantly explores the ache of falling in love and falling apart. For a Singapore which has evolved since Peculiar Chris, Lee's assured second novel revisits the notions of choice and choosing in a manner which, to his readers, has become not just necessary, but imperative."
- Daren Shiau, author

"It's been a long wait for the readers who enjoyed Peculiar Chris... and this is a welcome return and contribution to Singapore gay fiction by Lee."
- Dr Stuart Koe, CEO Fridae.com

“One of the book's strongest points is its ability to capture the conflict of being caught between worlds - a universal, yet at the same time uniquely Singaporean, condition… There is the despair of a lost love warring with the hope of loving again. And there is the yearning to escape a suffocating environment for the larger world, yet the inescapable desire to be drawn back into the embrace of home.”
- Stephanie Yap, The Straits Times

“Lee’s natural narrative ability is back and stronger than ever… The story bravely tackles the issues surrounding modern homosexuality, and lays bare what it takes to come to terms with being a modern Singaporean… This punchy read keeps you engrossed all the way to its surprise ending.”
- June Lee, Time Out

"It's a much more mature book than the first, but the talent for telling a story with honesty and enrapturement is still very much there… One day, I think it is safe to bet, this novel will be on the required reading list for Singapore students, even if some people might turn in their grave, or more likely in the Singapore context, stew in their urn. It will be on that list precisely because it is suspended in the tension between being gay and being Singaporean, being away and being connected; precisely because it captures a moment in our shared national history."
- YawningBread.org

"Read his novel... for its sheer honesty and at times heart wrenching moments... Its importance in staking a claim in the territory of the narrative of the overseas gay Singaporean male as well as the matured Singaporean gay male experience, is not to be underestimated."
- Trevvy.com

"To read this book is not just to know where the author is coming from, but to recognise, as gay people in a postmodern Asia, ourselves. How we love, where we hope to go. Who we are." 
- Fridae.com
Subjects: Gay men, Fiction
LC classification: MLCS 2009/04780 (P)