新加坡出版

　　一位服務社會20多年，創辦多個組織關懷老人的資深社工，在媽媽癡呆後，開始在臉書和報章專欄記錄自己和癡呆老媽的生活點滴，為的是透過記錄來梳理自己作為照顧者的心路歷程，也作為自我反省的一面鏡子。

　　這本書追溯作者在失智母親記憶亂舞、行為脫序的日子中，家人如何靠得更緊、如何當局者

迷、如何放過老媽也放過自己。回看當時，老媽教會了他什麼？

 　本書獲得2022年大眾讀者票選好書第二名。

作者簡介

　　黃明德出生在新加坡對未來很不確定，卻也很篤定必須自立的年代。張曼玉、Gordon Ramsay、週華健等，也在那個年代出生，可謂競爭激烈。要出名，黃明德只好另闢蹊徑，當社工。

　　黃明德念過不少好學校，才補足了先天不足。後天他是努力的，明天就不知道了。

　　以下幾件事，黃明德參與其中：創辦馬林百列家庭服務中心，後來拓展為多元綜合社會服務的蒙福關懷（Montfort Care)；開設 YAH! 快樂學堂、社區廚房GoodLife! Makan；2000年獲新加坡總統頒發「全國傑出社會工作者」獎項、2010 年獲頒總統國慶公共服務獎章PBM、2016 年則獲頒總統國慶公共服務星章BBM。

　　黃明德感恩念舊的， 他閉上眼睛， 一切就想起來了。出名要趁早，張愛玲說的話。黃明德聽進去了，做不到。

Food Republic is a generous serving of Singapore's food culture: from the making and eating of food, to the sale and hawking of it, our love and hate of it, and the effects of its consumption and deprivation.

Food has always been our safe space, our comfort zone: a place where we could freely engage in heated arguments about the best nasi lemak, the most fragrant cendol and whether the standard of the stall has dropped or not. Yet this anthology, featuring more than one hundred literary explorations of our food and food culture, also shows that when people write about food, they often aren't just talking about food but usually about something else, closer to the heart. Or the bone.

Curated from previously published work and selections from an open call, the poems, fiction and non-fiction in Food Republic range from the passionately realised to tantalisingly surreal. Think of it as a buffet, a banquet, an omakase, a smorgasbord, a nasi padang spread, a thali or a rijssttafel – we hope we've assembled one to your taste. Come. Eat.

Some Contributors: Arthur Yap, Leong Liew Geok, Edwin Thumboo, Toh Hsien Min, Wong Phui Nam, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Koh Jee Leong, Lee Tzu Pheng, Joshua Ip, Margaret Leong, Alvin Pang, Catherine Lim, Ng Yi-Sheng, Amanda Lee Koe, Alfian Sa'at, Wong May, Gopal Baratham, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Yong Shu Hoong, Aaron Maniam, Hamid Roslan, Daren Shiau, Boey Kim Cheng, Theophilus Kwek, Cyril Wong and Jennifer Anne Champion

WE R FAMILY
edited by Grace Chia
published by Math Paper Press

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Families come packaged in all shapes and sizes. At the heart of every family unit is love — or what passes off as love. 

A father and son bond over a loss — with wool. A myopic daughter sees her parents clearly for the first time. Two mental patients learn to coexist under the same roof. An American biracial dad finds moorings with his African adoptee. And a Kiwi mum in a mixed family grows roots in multicultural Singapore.

An anthology of eight unforgettable tales, We R Family celebrates the family in its colourful diversity from the whispers of homes in nameless cities to the metropolises of SIngapore, New York, Mumbai and Addis Ababa to the suburbs of Indiana and Connecticut.