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Jing-Jing Lee

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Born

in Singapore, Singapore

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

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Jing-Jing Lee is the author of HOW WE DISAPPEARED (Oneworld and Hanover Square Press, May 2019). Born and raised in Singapore, she graduated from Oxford’s Creative Writing Master’s in 2011 and has since seen her poetry and short stories published in various journals and anthologies. Lee's novella, If I Could Tell You, was published by Marshall Cavendish in 2013 and her debut poetry collection, And Other Rivers, was published by Math Paper Press in 2015.
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Average rating: 4.18 · 11,954 ratings · 1,480 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Red at the Bone [Hardcover], Nightingale Point, How We Disappeared 3 Books Collection Set by Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author), Luan Goldie (Goodreads Author), Jing-Jing Lee (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 83,322 ratings — published 2019 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Disappeared 4.20 avg rating — 11,530 ratings — published 2019 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If I Could Tell You 3.77 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Singapore Love Stories by Verena Tay (Editor), Audrey Chin (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Heather Higgins (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Luxury We Cannot Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry by Christine Chia (Editor), Joshua Ip (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Grayson (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Other Rivers 3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LONTAR #5 by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Founding Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Poetry Editor), Adan Jimenez (Goodreads Author) (Comics Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matchbook Stories (Issue #2) by Ioanna Mavrou (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jing-Jing Lee (Goodreads Author) (Poerty Editor), Pat Cash it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matchbook Stories (Issue #1) by Ioanna Mavrou (Goodreads Author), Jing-Jing Lee (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And then, after the horror during what was supposed to be her best years, how her mother's words, the shame foisted on her by herself, her family, and everyone around her, had dictated the silence that shadowed her every move after the war.”
― Jing-Jing Lee, How We Disappeared

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“Sometimes all you had to do to get someone to talk was to be silent”
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“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
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