A Stranger in a Strange Land

[Winner of the Southeast Asia Fiction Award at the First Global Chinese Fiction Writing Competition] In Shanghai, the day Liu Yiyun receives her diploma from Shencheng University is also the day her father dies. To survive and repay the enormous debts he left behind, she has no choice but to travel to Singapore for work with her friend Lü Tingting. When they first arrive in the foreign country and move into a public housing flat, they meet their sixty-year-old Singaporean landlady, Lin Shuangjiao. An elderly woman and two young women, they gradually open up to one another amid the bumps and misunderstandings of cultural differences. Meanwhile, Yiyun and Tingting face one workplace crisis and challenge after another, and gradually head down two entirely different paths in life...