Confrontation follows Adi as he navigates his childhood to his youth days against the backdrop of post-colonial Singapore to the Malay community. Adi is accompanied and guided by Abang Dolah, a bomoh and a political activist, as he figures out his own political ideology and how he can emerge a successful Malay man against the stereotype created by white men. 

I find that the author writes women in a way that is rather violent and that the portrayal of the nonverbal baby to be full of ableism. Often, the writer repeats the description of a woman and only takes into consideration her physical appearance rather than anything else. Perhaps, we can say that this is a significant story-telling function to show how women were being viewed in the past. But, I find the repetition of the description "voluptuous" to describe women were off-putting. I get it that women are victims of patriarchy and therefore, the violence that comes with it. But is it soooo hard to write about women that are beyond "sexy" or "victims of rape/domestic violence"? 

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