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The writer and his younger brother with his grandmother and great-grandmother.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SHAWN HOO
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SINGAPORE – Unlike many of my peers from the 20-something generation, I was raised by a gaggle of mothers and grandmothers.
Raised by my paternal grandmother from the day after I was born, I was swaddled in her tangy Hokkien speech. Every night, until I was a teenager, my younger brother and I would lay mattresses on both sides of her bed and go to sleep.
