Never Been Better

Book Description:

In this collection of stories, O Thiam Chin has created a series of unforgettable, deeply affecting portraits of individuals whose intersections of loves and losses mark the dawn of awareness and longing in their lives. Never Been Better illustrates O's literary versatility in the assortment of characters who occupy the world of ambivalence and false optimism, yet still persist in trudging on with strength and resilience.

From free-spirited teenage runaways and a lonely child who collects dead animals to hidden family secrets and migrant workers who live squalid lives far away from home, these eclectic stories are heartbreaking, haunting and rendered with a touch of grace, compassion and poignancy.

About the Author:

O THIAM CHIN is a Singapore-born writer whose stories have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including World Literature Today, The International Literary Quarterly, Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Kyoto Journal and the New Straits Times. His début collection of stories, Free-Falling Man, was published in 2006, followed by a second collection, Never Been Better, in 2009 (which was longlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award), and a third, Under the Sun. His latest collection of stories, The Rest of Your Life and Everything That Comes With It, published in 2011, was longlisted for the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He lives in Singapore.

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