{"id":41295,"date":"2016-10-19T11:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=41295"},"modified":"2016-10-15T22:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T02:43:21","slug":"sarong-party-girls-cheryl-lu-lien-tan-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/sarong-party-girls-cheryl-lu-lien-tan-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SarongJazzy is still single at almost 27. When her BFF-quartet lost Sher to the dream they all aspire to \u2013 marrying an “ang moh,” a wealthy Western expat, because local Singaporean men “are a bit fussy” about “older girls” \u2013 Jazzy decides she needs a strategy to achieve such privilege and power through an international match.\u00a0Still living with her parents and working as a newspaper editor-in-chief’s assistant, Jazzy spends most evenings with her remaining BFFs as sarong party girls on the hunt.<\/p>\n

Fueled by materialistic pressures and too-easy hedonism, Jazzy and crew drink, dance, flirt, and audition potential suitors with varied results. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s debut novel, following a memoir, A Tiger in the Kitchen<\/em><\/a>, is seemingly meant to be light entertainment, although underlying issues of race and class can’t be ignored; that Jazzy and friends target wealthy white men as would-be saviors is an all-too-familiar, albeit disturbing, trope.<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>: Flaws aside (self-absorption and overpartying quickly induce eye-rolling tedium), Tan’s work gets a spirited boost from narrator Angela Lin, who embodies Tan’s Singlish \u2013 “the patois that most Singaporeans speak to one another” \u2013 with energetic, pitch-perfect intonation, making Lin the real life of this imperfect Party<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: \u201cAudio,\u201d Library Journal<\/em>, October 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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