The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually
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When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didnāt expect her older sister to go missing. Faced with her motherās wrath and riddled with guilt, Anna tries to make amends as she grapples with the aftermath of her actions.
Until her daughterās 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,Ā The Gods Will Hear Us EventuallyĀ boldly interrogates the extent of familial love and expectation while unravelling the complexities of hope and redemption.
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Jinny Kohās stories and essays have appeared inĀ Pembroke Magazine,Ā The Carolina Quarterly,Ā Kyoto Journal,Ā Columbia Journal,Ā Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 2, andĀ Litro, among others.
Her short story, āClose To Homeā, was recently shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Jinny graduated Phi Kappa Phi with a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she was the Fiction Editor forĀ The Southern California Review.
CurrentlyĀ a freelance writer based in Singapore,Ā The Gods Will Hear Us EventuallyĀ is her debut novel.
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- About the Author
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When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didnāt expect her older sister to go missing. Faced with her motherās wrath and riddled with guilt, Anna tries to make amends as she grapples with the aftermath of her actions.
Until her daughterās 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,Ā The Gods Will Hear Us EventuallyĀ boldly interrogates the extent of familial love and expectation while unravelling the complexities of hope and redemption.
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Jinny Kohās stories and essays have appeared inĀ Pembroke Magazine,Ā The Carolina Quarterly,Ā Kyoto Journal,Ā Columbia Journal,Ā Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 2, andĀ Litro, among others.
Her short story, āClose To Homeā, was recently shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Jinny graduated Phi Kappa Phi with a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she was the Fiction Editor forĀ The Southern California Review.
CurrentlyĀ a freelance writer based in Singapore,Ā The Gods Will Hear Us EventuallyĀ is her debut novel.
