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To Be Read (TBR): Are you Team Green or White Snake? How Sister Snake rebooted a cult classic

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The book launch of Singaporean novelist Amanda Lee Koe's Sister Snake (2024) saw devoted fans pledging allegiance to one of her two immortal snake characters.

Singaporean novelist Amanda Lee Koe (seated) at the book launch of Sister Snake on Jan 17 with fans and attendees dressing up in green and white.

PHOTO: ETHOS BOOKS

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SINGAPORE – “Wear green,” my movie partner instructed me before the screening.

No, this was not for Wicked (2024), but the launch of a Singapore novel. “If you don’t have any green, just wear any colour – except white.”

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