Jinny Koh

A Novel

The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually

Cyril Wong

Alicia Tuckerman

Jay Anderson

David Whish-Wilson

Rashida Murphy

Sabrina Dudgeon-Swift

Arin Alycia Fong

Marylyn Tan

Laurie Steed

Aishah Alhadad

Chen Cuifen

Diana Rahim

Heather Teo

Leslie Thiele

Rachelle Rechichi

Rajkumar Thiagaras

Choo Ruizhi

Tinashe Jakwa

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Endangered tigers connecting telepathically through time-travel; a guard’s ethical dilemma at a history museum; a slaughterhouse worker’s memories of his dead wife; a monochrome town upended by a wild watermelon…

In This Desert, There Were Seeds is an intimate collection of past and future dreams, featuring exciting new and established literary voices from Western Australia and Singapore. From our shifting sense of community and identity, to our frustrations with existing political, social and economic structures—this anthology transcends boundaries and captures the persistence of ordinary lives in deserts literal and metaphorical.

In This Desert, There Were Seeds

When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didn’t expect her older sister to go missing. Faced with her mother’s wrath and riddled with guilt, Anna tries to make amends as she grapples with the aftermath of her actions. Until her daughter’s body is found, Su Lai refuses to believe that she has simply disappeared. Turning to a medium as her obsession to find her daughter escalates, the family is sucked into a web of pain and deceit that forces them to confront their own measures of loss. A masterful debut by Jinny Koh, The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually boldly interrogates the extent of familial love and expectation while unravelling the complexities of hope and redemption.

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