Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of five novels, including Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, which was a Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick in 2018. Born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia and the Philippines, Jaswal studied creative writing in the United States and worked as an English teacher in Australia and Turkey. She has held fellowships at the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University, where she also completed her PhD in South Asian diaspora writing. Jaswal’s non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar India, Refinery29 and Salon.com, among other publications.
<p>"Hidden lives. Buried secrets… It’s time to shine a spotlight on it all.</p><p>Corazon, Angel and Donita have all come to Singapore to work for a living. The thing that unites them? Their labour must remain unseen.</p><p>Then an explosive news story shatters Singapore’s tranquillity, and sends a chill down the spine of every domestic worker. Flordeliza Martinez, a Filipina maid, has been arrested for murdering her female employer. The three women don’t know the accused well, but she could beany of them; every worker knows stories of women who were scapegoated for crimes they didn’t commit.</p><p>Shocked into action, Donita, Corazon and Angel must gather every ounce of bravery,</p><p>fearlessness and gumption to piece together the mystery of what really happened on that fateful day. After all, no one knows the secrets of Singapore’s families like the women who work in their homes…"</p>
