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May’s Most-Anticipated Books

Look no further for your next read. The amount of great new books hitting shelves each month can be overwhelming but We Are Bookish rounded up ten of the buzziest books coming out this May—no matter what genre you’re interested in.

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She does everything for everyone, but is that enough?

An old apartment building in Singapore is about to be demolished. But twenty-eight-year-old Jie-Li and her parents can’t afford a new place. Now she has the chance to make big money by retrieving a family treasure for her former neighbor; but the new guy next door, a young American artist, may not let her. The Painter from Block 59 is about the bond between a filial daughter and her ailing parents, the conflict between art and the artist, and a love connection that overrides all sensibility. Read more

The Painter from Block 59

C.S. Chan

The Painter from Block 59

C.S. Chan