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Book review: Amanda Lee Koe’s Sister Snake proves she is Singapore’s most formidable prose stylist

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Sister Snake, Amanda Lee Koe's latest novel, is a reimagination of the Legend Of The White Snake in Singapore.

Singaporean novelist Amanda Lee Koe's second novel Sister Snake (2024) retells the famous Legend of the White Snake with a queerer and more rebellious outlook.

PHOTOS: LENNE CHAI, ETHOS BOOKS

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By Amande Lee Koe
Fiction/Ethos Books/Paperback/256 pages/$22

Kudos to Singaporean novelist Amanda Lee Koe for refusing to repeat a winning formula.

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