Balik Kampung 3A: Northern Shores Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Single-Author Collection (2008) and an aggressive Harvard Business

and an aggressive Harvard Business School grad

It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather

For over fifty years

" These are the troubling words Serena Charters's grandmother has written on a note accompanying four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript delivered after the old woman's passing

Balik Kampung 3A: Northern Shores Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Single-Author Collection (2008) and an aggressive Harvard BusinessTen established and new writers have written ten short stories that are set in Seletar, Yishun, Marsiling, Ang Mo Kio and Upper Thompson. Because each story draws upon the respective writer's in depth knowledge of a specific space, they are powerful texts that evoke vivid characters inhabiting palpable environments and demonstrate why these writers regard Singapore's northern shores as 'home'.