Bang My Car Condition:Well Read She’s got a fabulous Manhattan

She’s got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke

It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy

THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry

as might a pilgrim from Mars

Bang My Car Condition:Well Read She’s got a fabulous ManhattanUncle: we all know him. This is the man who picks his nose on the bus, who will fight for his country and fight you to do it his way. He will shout you into submission while astounding you with his tenderness towards his wife. His standard answer to all you questions is "nothing." Singaporean to the core, this volume of short stories narrated in a mixture of colloquial Singlish and standard English reinvents classic prose forms from the ghost story to