{"product_id":"deplorable-conversations-with-cats-and-other-distractions","title":"Deplorable Conversations with Cats and Other Distractions","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucky Lee has everything—wealth, charm, money, good looks—and does very, very little with it. He’s content. He’s happy. He takes for granted that life is good and always will be. But then his sister, the go-getting, successful, famous TV chef Pearl Lee, dies, horribly, and suddenly. Lucky is devastated. As he struggles to live without the big sister who’s always been the dominant, often relentless force in his life, the inconceivable happens—her cat begins to talk to him. It wants to know where Pearl is. It questions his eating habits, his outfit choices, his life. It hogs the TV. It tells him stories. Now grief-stricken Lucky has a major problem: he may very well be mad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYeoh Jo-Ann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Malaysia and lives in Singapore. As a teenager, she dreamt of being a cat or a rock star, but instead spent most of her adult life working in publishing, somehow ending up as the features editor of a women's magazine before giving it up for a career in digital marketing. Her first novel, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/impractical-uses-of-cake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eImpractical Uses of Cake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, won the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/series_all\/series_epigram-books-fiction-prize\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEpigram Books Fiction Prize\u003c\/a\u003e in Singapore in 2018 and has been translated into German (Kroner, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer short stories have been included in Singaporean anthologies such as \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-epigram-books-collection-of-best-new-singaporean-short-stories-volume-three\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBest Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and in 2020, her short story \u003cem\u003eDog Tiger Horse\u003c\/em\u003e won the \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s annual Aura Estrada Short Story Contest. She is currently working on her third novel and hopes to finish it before she turns into some sort of cabbage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Times Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47719390052649,"sku":"9789815144772","price":26.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/9789815144772.jpg?v=1709279419","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/deplorable-conversations-with-cats-and-other-distractions","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}