Set in different cities around the world - Hong Kong, Miami, New York, London, Ipoh and Singapore - Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean-Malaysian diaspora, and ask what it means to be 'Chinese' or 'Asian' within the context of dual, or hyphenated, identities.

In the title story (runner-up in the 2018 UK Bridport Prize) four Asian writers are flummoxed by the sexual shenanigans that start when a handsome young Asian writer joins their support group. In other stories, three Singaporean daughters welcome their mother on a first visit to London and quarrel over steamboat, a Chinese woman raps about being a Tiger Mother, an elderly Chinese woman finds that it isn’t race that estranges, but the inability to tell the truth, and an ethnic writer takes on Eastern mythology in a metaphoric quest to understand the anxiety of Western literary influence.