A Broken Wok

By Bruce Allsman

A Broken Wok, a Malaysian family drama by Bruce Allsman

 

Freelance writer, Lim Siew Bee, a single mother with her eight-year-old son, Jason, lives next door to Madam Ong, an octogenarian living alone in single story link house. One morning, upon returning home from sending her son to school, Siew Bee hears a cry for help next door and she goes over to check. She finds the old lady, clad in a sarong lying on the floor just outside the bathroom, groaning in pain, unable to get up. The incident marks the beginning of her relationship with the octogenarian that lasts until the old lady's inevitable demise several weeks later. During the wake, Siew Bee learns the cause of the old lady's unfortunate circumstances and realizes that for this dysfunctional family, filial piety is dead in the age of consumerism.

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Yeoh
• Release date: May 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201287993

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A Broken Wok

Bruce Allsman

All of the characters in this book

are fictitious, and any resemblance

to actual persons, living or dead,

is purely coincidental.

A Broken Wok

Copyright © 2020, 2021 by Bruce Allsman

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Published by Bruce Yeoh

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A Broken Wok

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A Broken Wok

EARLY MONDAY MORNING, when Lim Siew Bee returned home after sending her eight-year-old son, Jason, to SJK (C) Keong Hoe primary school, she felt something was wrong with her next door neighbor as soon as she parked her white Perodua Myvi in the