A tender, piercing short story collection that explores the complexities of existence, alienation and the perpetual search for meaning in our lives.

We Are All Alone in This Anyway
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"Jinny Koh writes stories of people on society’s edges in all kinds of crisis—money, love, grief—and does so with sophistication and tremendous subtlety. Like any artist who has honed her craft to its strongest expression, each story is unlike the other, insightful and deeply moving."
—Patrick Sagaram, author of
In Places We Find Ourselves

"A kaleidoscopic masterclass in empathy and imagining how other lives are lived."
—Thammika Songkaeo, author of Stamford Hospital

"Secrets abound and uneasy desires erupt as characters make difficult, even dangerous choices that shake them to
their core. A heartfelt, reflective portrait of quiet but intensely lived lives in contemporary Singapore."
—Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, author of Names Have Been Changed

"Sharp, compassionate and quietly devastating. We Are All Alone in This Anyway is a memorable collection
about solitude and survival."
—Dr Anitha Devi Pillai, poet, translator and author of Sembawang: A Novel

"Such lives of quiet desperation, and the desperately quiet. Jinny Koh has managed to capture them all, in prose that’s meticulous and measured."
—Felix Cheong, poet, graphic novelist
and author of Be Real

"Koh’s prose is stripped bare,
restrained and revelatory."
—Jon Gresham, writer, photographer, and author of Gus, The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles Banded Langur