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    A Broken Wok
    A Broken Wok
    A Broken Wok
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    A Broken Wok

    By Bruce Allsman

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    A Broken Wok, a Malaysian family drama by Bruce Allsman

     

    Freelance writer, Lim Siew Bee, a single mother with her eight-year-old son, Jason, lives next door to Madam Ong, an octogenarian living alone in single story link house. One morning, upon returning home from sending her son to school, Siew Bee hears a cry for help next door and she goes over to check. She finds the old lady, clad in a sarong lying on the floor just outside the bathroom, groaning in pain, unable to get up. The incident marks the beginning of her relationship with the octogenarian that lasts until the old lady's inevitable demise several weeks later. During the wake, Siew Bee learns the cause of the old lady's unfortunate circumstances and realizes that for this dysfunctional family, filial piety is dead in the age of consumerism.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Yeoh
    Release dateMay 3, 2021
    ISBN9798201287993
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      A Broken Wok - Bruce Allsman

      A Broken Wok

      Bruce Allsman

      All of the characters in this book

      are fictitious, and any resemblance

      to actual persons, living or dead,

      is purely coincidental.

      A Broken Wok

      Copyright © 2020, 2021 by Bruce Allsman

      All Rights Reserved

      Published by Bruce Yeoh

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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      A Broken Wok

      About the Author

      Books by Bruce Allsman

      A Broken Wok

      EARLY MONDAY MORNING, when Lim Siew Bee returned home after sending her eight-year-old son, Jason, to SJK (C) Keong Hoe primary school, she felt something was wrong with her next door neighbor as soon as she parked her white Perodua Myvi in the

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