This Place Called Absence

Written by Lydia Kwa.

Published by Kensington, 2008.

9780758201485 Fiction

This Place Called Absence weaves the stories of 4 women living in 2 different times: Wu Lan, a modern-day lesbian living in Canada, who is studying the lives of Chinese prostitutes; her mother, a recent widow; and 2 prostitutes living in Singapore at the turn of the 20th century.