Gunk Baby av Jamie Marina Lau

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<p><b>''</b><b>A tender horror story, all the more haunting for being so familiar</b><b>'' Roisin Kiberd, author of <i>The Disconnect</i></b><br><br><b>''Here is a new existence among the malls of instant consumerism'' Alan Warner</b><br><br>The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and thematically designed neighbourhoods.<br><br>Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother''s Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies.<br><br>But something is not quite right in Par Mars. Managers are being attacked, and when Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist who is obsessed with a cryptic online forum, she finds herself involved in a community that is intent on disrupting the routines of capitalism in increasingly troubling ways.</p>