It wasn’t love, really. They were just trying to makesomething out of their lives.

Kyoto, 1996, during the passing of Comet Hyakutake: Arunaway from Singapore discovers a woman crying in front of a train station at5.46am. A Straits Times journalist later arrives with her gallerist friend fromMadrid, dreading the reenactment of her mother’s performance art. The lives ofthese four friendsIsaac, Tori, Jing and Mateobecome entangled as a result ofone madcap weekend, when fireworks are inexplicably shot over the Kamo Riverand people become swept to alternate worlds via public transport.

Daryl Qilin Yams genre-defying second novel ranges acrosscountries and decades, charting the tributaries of pain we thread with ourfriends and the arcs of the many stories we tell in order to live.

About the Author

Daryl Qilin Yamis the author ofKappaQuartet, a novel published by Epigram Books in 2016. He is also aco-editor of the SingPoWriMo anthology series, a director at Sing Lit Station,and a stageplay producer at non-profit collective Take Off Productions.

He holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and CreativeWriting from the University of Warwick; he won the Second Year Prize from theDepartment of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and spent anintercalated year studying under the AIKOM program at the University of Tokyo.

His prose and poetry have been published in a number ofanthologies and literary journals, which includeEsquire (Singapore),LONTAR:The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction,OF ZOOS,QLRS,andCha: An Asian Literary Journal.