The characters in this collection of stories are people we all know. People like ourselves, searching and yearning, often in the wrong places for something meaningful and real or for at least a brief moment, right. A real-estate agent tries to sell a home to a feuding couple while his own marriage is being tested; a divorcee resigned to drink and television for company finds pleasures of life with another woman; and the price a mother pays when love and its irrationality blinds her to her parental duties. In these stories what is excavated and revealed lies at the heart of Singaporean lives.
Patrick Sagaram’s work has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) and Wine & Dine. His short stories have appeared in Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four and Volume Six and included in How We Live Now (2022), commissioned by the Ministry of Education as a GCE O-Level Literature text. His stories have also been anthologized in the collection Quiet Loving, Ravaging Search - 20 Years Of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. He has also contributed to the non-fiction collection Letter to my Father (2022) edited by Felix Cheong. He lives in Singapore and works as a teacher.

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In Places We Find Ourselves