Inheritance

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Winner of the 2014 Best Young Australian Novelists Award In 1971, a teenage girl briefly disappears from her house in the middle of the night, only to return a different person, causing fissures that threaten to fracture her Punjabi Sikh family. As Singapore’s political and social landscapes evolve, the family must cope with shifting attitudes toward castes, youth culture, sex and gender roles, identity and belonging. Inheritance examines each family member’s struggles to either preserve or reject tradition in the face of an ever-changing nation. An astounding novel of family life and how people manage to find the truth about themselves.