Wrinkle in Time' Star Storm Reid, Niecy Nash Among Five to Join Ava DuVernay's 'Central Park Five' Series". A howl of rage, mostly against the abusive, exploitative treatment of Filipino women domestic workers in Singapore, but also against shitty men, the murderous regime of Duterte in the Philippines, religious bigots, homophobic and transphobic bigots, the spoiled selfish rich, and the systems that allow all the above to get away with ruining people's lives.

Angel as a character felt unnecessary to the story overall despite the one thing she does which impacts the flimsy plot, which sucks because that’s a third of the main characters that then felt like a waste of time to read. She has held fellowships at the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University, where she also completed her PhD in South Asian diaspora writing.That might sound like it’ll lead to a bit of a madcap read, but it doesn’t - it is funny at times, but mostly it’s thought provoking and serious, raising important awareness of these issues.

This is especially true at the end (where there is a profession of love that comes from absolutely no where! My only regret is that this is usually the sort of book I like to save for vacation (which I realized as I was reading but surely was not going to put it down for later! Fann is suspicious and abusive to the young Donita; Cora has a hard time setting boundaries between her and ma'am Elizabeth and Angel, who is supplanted in her role as a caregiver by a newly hired nurse, battles the nurse for control of the household. When a fourth worker, Flordeliza, is arrested for murdering her employer, the three band together to prove her innocence.I easily fell in love with the wildly different Corazon, Donita, and Angel and enjoyed seeing them take agency in their own lives and with their differing employers. Instead the author threw issue after issue into the mix, which muddied the message and reeked of desperation to elicit a negative reaction to all things Singaporean. It has a mystery going through it which was very attention grabbing however the lives of these poor domestics were unbelievably difficult, made worse by the Singapore women of the house. Donita bristles at the abusive control exerted by her church leader, especially when it interferes with the relationship she pursues on her days off. The final two pages brought me to near tears in relation to one of the protagonist’s journey with her grief.