Sarong Party Girls
- Author: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
- Narrator: Angela Lin
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 11:19:59
Synopsis
A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.
On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh—Western expat—husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose.
As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asia’s financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed?
Vividly told in Singlish—colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.
Chapters
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001 Sarong Party Girls
Duration: 40s -
002 Chapter 01
Duration: 36min -
003 Chapter 02
Duration: 14min -
004 Chapter 03
Duration: 22min -
005 Chapter 04
Duration: 53min -
006 Chapter 05
Duration: 32min -
007 Chapter 06
Duration: 27min -
008 Chapter 07
Duration: 40min -
009 Chapter 08
Duration: 43min -
010 Chapter 09
Duration: 54min -
011 Chapter 10
Duration: 22min -
012 Chapter 11
Duration: 26min -
013 Chapter 12
Duration: 25min -
014 Chapter 13
Duration: 45min -
015 Chapter 14
Duration: 30min -
016 Chapter 15
Duration: 31min -
017 Chapter 16
Duration: 25min -
018 Chapter 17
Duration: 41min -
019 Chapter 18
Duration: 21min -
020 Chapter 19
Duration: 40min