Gods of Want: Stories Poppy Evans looking at the ways that

looking at the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish all around us

10) The Terrible Catastrophe

he defines a true "product

lost to itself because blighted by greed

Or briefly catch glimpses of a passer-by through a fan shaped window in a stairwell in Ubi

Gods of Want: Stories Poppy Evans looking at the ways thatIn "Auntland," a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughters "Dog." In "The Chorus of Dead Cousins," ghost cousins cross space, seas, and skies to haunt their live cousin, wife to a storm chaser. In "Xf," a mother in law tortures a wife in increasingly unsuccessful attempts to rid the