Second Saturdays Reading Series
Private home in Woodside, Queens
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Sister Snake (Ecco, 2024) is a glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret
Razor-sharp, hilarious, and raw in emotion, Sister Snake explores chosen family, queerness, passing, and the struggle against conformity. Reimagining the Chinese folktale “The Legend of the White Snake,” this is a novel about being seen for who you are—and, ultimately, how to live free.
Amanda Lee Koe was born and raised in Singapore and has lived in New York, Beijing, Berlin and Bangkok. Her debut novel, Delayed Rays of a Star (2019), was named a Most Anticipated Title by ELLE, Los Angeles Times, Thrillist, and USA Today, and was one of NPR's Best Books of The Year. Her first short story collection, Ministry of Moral Panic (2013), won the Singapore Literature Prize, and was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English books in Singapore from 1965–2015. Amanda has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, PEN America, the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the National Arts Council of Singapore, and the Fóndation Jan Michalski. She was previously fiction editor of Esquire Singapore. Sister Snake (2024) is her latest novel.
