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...Singapore-born and San Francisco-based writer Wena Poon is nevertheless banking on the continuing appeal of émigré literature with a debut collection of short stories that takes as its theme the Singaporean diaspora. Given that the latter has been so infrequently explored, Lions in Winter has a greater chance of being fresh than a comparable Chinese or Indian work - but instead, it lapses, at least in part, into the clichés that bedevil stories of Asian deracination...
...Consider the story "Addiction," about a gay Singaporean student in London named Alistair. Parts of it are smartly observed, but structurally Poon draws too crude a contrast between London and Singapore to power her plot of a young man's journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while...
...that relatively small surcharge hardly seems sufficient to overcome the seductive pull of casinos and their multimillion-dollar marketing budgets. "The gambling industry is so big," says Poon Yan-chi, director of the Macau center where Tan delivers his PowerPoint presentations on the evils of gambling. "It's like David and Goliath." David sometimes wins. But that...
...suck for the five people who care…Something Harvard should care about: Paris is doing Harvard. The when and where is not clear, but when the dust clears, she’ll be table-dancing at the ’Poon…No poon was had by one foolish senior last weekend, when he missed his chance to score one of Florida’s richest bitches due to incessant cuddling with his straight male roommate…SPOTTED: Spurned sorority girl rigging costume contest at Halloween party to deny her ex, who attended with another member...
...Skype video call showing Braff on a trampoline outside the ’Poon Castle soon appeared on a Brattle screen...