A stunning, provocative, and trailblazing portrait of the Hong Kong public estate landscape and its people. It’s a historical fiction slash fantasy, weaving interesting facts about Hong Kong public estates into a series of short stories on a fictional public estate’s residents. The book has rich sensory descriptions, easily transporting the reader to an almost utopian old Hong Kong.
Hong Kong does not need more stories of the white expats, Chinese patriots, self-proclaimed activists, or amateur politicians. We need to hear more real human stories about a teenage boy struggles to get through (and sometimes enjoy) his life in his shoebox public estate apartment, for example.