Karien van Ditzhuijzen

A Yellow House (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of Maya and her baby sister, Maya is ready to hate her. Aunty M smiles a lot, but says little. However, after Aunty M rescues a fellow maid living in the same building and beaten by her employer, Maya discovers a side of Singapore hitherto unknown to her. She and Aunty M grow closer as they meet more and more women in need. What will happen when Mama finds out about Maya and Aunty M s growing involvement with the aunties? Will Maya lose Aunty M too? After all, Mama did say she hates busybodies ... This poignant coming-of-age story, told in the voice of inquisitive Maya, explores the plight of migrant domestic workers in Singapore and the relationships they form with the families they work for.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912049356
• Artikelnr.: 53092602

Autorenporträt

After a childhood spent traversing Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Karien van Ditzhuijzen settled in Singapore in 2012. Karien has a degree in chemical engineering, but gave up her career developing ice cream recipes to become a writer. She now dedicates her life (in no particular order) to advocating migrant workers' rights, her family, her pet chicken and being entertained by monkeys while writing at the patio of her jungle house. In 2013 Karien joined Singaporean charity HOME to support domestic workers staying at their shelter. In 2014 she founded the MyVoice blog, a place for migrant workers to share their stories. Karien created and edited the book Our Homes, Our Stories, an anthology of 28 real-life stories written by migrant domestic workers, which was published in March 2018. As a freelance writer and blogger Karien contributes to several publications in Singapore and the Netherlands. In 2012 she published a children's book in Dutch recounting her childhood in Borneo. A Yellow House is her first novel.