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Lau's voice is cool, precise yet unfailingly human, taking aim at mall culture, work culture and consumer culture, and revealing them as excuses we whisper to ourselves as we lurch slowly towards a luxurious void' Roisin Kiberd, author of The Disconnect  'Jamie Marina Lau's sensibility is elliptical and it is unique;  here is a new existence among the malls of instant consumerism' Alan Warner  The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and thematically designed neighbourhoods.    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.   But something is not quite right in Par Mars. 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Taking aim at consumerism and class, orientalism and the Zen movement, violence and middle-class boredom, GUNK BABY is inventive, unforgettable and from a voice younger, newer and more critical than most.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578438492433,"sku":"GOR011867545","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52900263887121,"sku":"GOR012801464","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53345599848721,"sku":"GOR014863687","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1474620906.jpg?v=1751052699"},{"product_id":"pink-mountain-on-locust-island-book-jamie-marina-lau-9781566895941","title":"Pink Mountain on Locust Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBlending digital fever dream and hard-boiled noir in bursts of claustrophobic prose, \u003ci\u003ePink Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e on Locust Island follows a teenager and her maybe-boyfriend into the seedy corners of the art world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her \"grumpy brown couch\" of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy (santacoyshotsauce@gmail.com). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with Santa Coy's artwork, Monk finds herself shunted to the sidelines as her father and the object of her affections begin to hatch a scheme of their own. 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[Lau's] prose combines the languid torpor of Michael Bible with the unease of Yoko Ogawa's more macabre work.\" ―Declan Fry, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA black comedy workplace thriller set in a sprawling indoor shopping mall about a cabal of low-wage workers who plot violent acts of \"resistance\" against their managers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the suburb of Par Mars stand a pair of identical shopping centers, each with the same harsh, fluorescent lights, climate-controlled environment, and monotonous encounters between employees and shoppers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Reviving an ancient Chinese ritual passed down by her mother, twenty-four-year-old Leen has opened an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Center. But the social fabric of Par Mars is coming loose, and a quiet unrest is growing among the mall's low-wage workers as store managers begin to fall victim to increasingly brutal and spontaneous attacks. When Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist enmeshed in a cryptic online community, she finds herself embroiled in a troubling plot to disrupt the routines of the town's banal consumer culture.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With fierce intellect, sharp wit, and original prose, Jamie Marina Lau interprets and vividly portrays the everyday violence and toil of contemporary working life. 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