Wena POON ... Lions in Winter (Salt Publishing, September 2009)

WENA POON’s Lions in Winter, first published by MPH Publishing in 2007, is now published by Salt Publishing in the UK. Her second collection, The Proper Care of Foxes, was recently published by Ethos Books in Singapore.

Five million English-speaking Chinese, Indians and Malays live in Singapore today—an artificial port city created entirely by British traders in the 19th century. The Singapore-born, multi-lingual American writer Wena Poon describes herself and her fiction as an ‘accident of history.’ She charts the 21st-century journey of Singaporeans as they settle in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, London, Perth and Toronto. In Lions in Winter, Poon captures the true urban sophistication of New Asia and the journey of an eclectic people coming to terms with their cultural legacy.