Red Packet with 20¢ negotiates the contours of individual perspectives and the grey areas of a family's collective memory. The book delicately explores kinship and pieces together a tender family portrait.
Christina M.Y. Chow is the eldest child of Soong Nyet Yun and Chow Ah Ming. Born in Singapore and educated at CHIJ Katong Convent, National University of Singapore and University of Essex, England, she has been a secondhand bookseller, worked in Adult Education and contributed to community health advocacy. She has lived in the UK with her British husband and their daughter and divides her time between Singapore and England.