“Incredibly moving and rejuvenating…It has been a while since a book left me sobbing in the middle of the night.”
— Akshita Nanda, The Straits Times
“The artwork is able to convey the gravity of Hock Seng’s life and does a great job of fleshing out the changes in his face over the years...the graphic narrative is well worth reading, especially as it dovetails with the discourses of hypermodernization that have long seen associated with Singapore as one of the Asian ‘tiger’ economies. What is being lost in this relentless drive to become a global city, the narrative might seem to be elliptically asking? Hock Seng would tell us to make sure to look into the local past before we step so stridently into the global future.”
—Stephen Hong, Asian American Literature Fans