How To Pick Up a Maid in Statue Square

✍ Scribed by Rea Tarvydas

• Book ID: 112026072
• Publisher: Thistledown Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 87 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781771871181

✦ Synopsis

These stories collectively capture various versions of the expat life that share the feeling of being between two worlds, that experience of being neither here nor there and trying to find a way to fill that space. The stories follow a kind of "life cycle" of expatriates in Hong Kong -- a place often called the "most thrilling city on the planet." They share the feeling of being between two worlds, the experience of being neither here nor there and trying to find a way to fill that space. From the hedonistic first days in How To Pick Up A Maid in Statue Square, as Fast Eddy instructs on how best to approach Filipina maids on their rest day; through the muted middle in Rephrasing Kate, as Kate encounters a charismatic bad boy and is forced to admit her infidelities; to the inevitable end in The Dirty Duck, as Philip realizes his inability to commit and resolves to return home to Australia; Hong Kong alters them all with its frenetic mixture of capitalism and exoticism....