The Angel Tiger and Other Stories

“Droll, whimsical and tender, these stories feature individuals teetering delicately on the edge, waiting to fall into each other or into a startling revelation about themselves.” —Cyril Wong, award-winning author of Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me

“In Barrie Sherwood’s deft hands, the most banal aspects of daily life morph into the weird and wondrous—airports evolve into dystopian landscapes, dead city birds mutate into sacred offerings, high-end supermarkets transform into museums of treasure. Like all the best writers, Sherwood shows us the incontrovertible magic in the mundane. Tender, funny and laced with a dash of the absurd, these stylish stories will seduce, intrigue and most of all, endure.”
—Kirstin Chen, author of Bury What We Cannot Take

“Beneath the placid surface of these stories lies all the pain and joy of human life as people struggle—sometimes quietly, sometimes less so—to make sense of their place in a changing, multicultural world. Barrie Sherwood has created some truly memorable characters who act as a reflecting pond to our own hopes and insecurities.”
—Tash Aw, critically acclaimed author of We, The Survivors

“Barrie Sherwood has created some truly memorable characters who act as a reflecting pond to our own hopes and insecurities.”
—Tash Aw, critically acclaimed author of We, The Survivors

Barrie Sherwood is the author of two novels: The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (2000) and Escape from Amsterdam (2007). A Hong Kong native of Canadian and French nationality, he now lives in Singapore and is the assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. This is his first-short story collection.