“Face” is reprinted with permission from The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories by Elaine Chiew (Myriad Editions, 2020): https://myriadeditions.com/books/the-heartsick-diaspora/

Elaine Chiew is a writer and a visual arts researcher, and editor of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015). Twice winner of the Bridport Short Story Competition, she has published numerous stories in anthologies in the UK, US and Singapore. Originally from Malaysia, Chiew graduated from Stanford Law School and worked as a corporate securities lawyer in New York and Hong Kong before studying for an MA in Asian Art History at Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore.