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Book review: Shze-hui Tjoa’s experimental memoir The Story Game plays with silence and gaps
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Singaporean writer Shze-hui Tjoa's The Story Game (2025), first published by Tin House, is now published in a new edition by Faction Press.
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By Shze-hui Tjoa
Memoir/Faction Press/Paperback/300 pages/$30
Singaporean writer Shze-hui Tjoa’s memoir is framed by a cryptic game – adult Tjoa tells a series of unrelated stories to her sister Nin, who is frozen at eight years old and listens obediently. They play the coy narrative game in their humid imaginary room, where Nin fishes for more but Tjoa is avoidant, reticent, digressive and forgetful.
