A surreal road trip embarked upon by a man and his enigmatic but voluble cat transforms into a metaphorical journey from grief and loss, to the wonders of self-discovery and unexpected healing. Their surprising travel adventure from Joo Chiat in Singapore to across the causeway inspires not just the protagonist but any sensitive reader in understanding how the things that matter are seldom the things we thought we desired.
———Cyril Wong, poet and fictionist

★ This work has been licensed to Italy. The author's debut novel won the Singapore Epigram Book Award and was translated into German. Her short story won the Boston Review's annual Ola Estrada Short Story Competition.
★ A healing story set in an absurd world, with starkly contrasting characters: a handsome and wealthy boy, after his sister's death, begins to converse with her cat, embarking on a surreal road trip. The cat constantly questions his life, forcing him to confront his grief, creating dramatic tension.
★ The cat's sharp tongue and caring nature coexist. Through the cat's questioning, the protagonist's inner world is reflected, a symbolic and miraculous journey from grief and loss to self-discovery and self-healing, offering a bittersweet reading experience.

A man finds himself the unwitting companion of a talking cat. . .
Lucky 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.

Yeoh Jo-Ann

Yeoh Jo-Ann 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, Impractical Uses of Cake, won the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in Singapore in 2018 and has been translated into German (Kroner, 2022). Her short stories have been included in Singaporean anthologies such as Best Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three, and in 2020, her short story Dog Tiger Horse won the Boston Review’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.