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Languishing Under Glass

Jason Erik Lundberg
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A magical realist journey to repair a fractured mother-daughter relationship, set against a near-future Singapore encapsulated by a monumental glass dome.

Leia Ooi’s husband died two years ago, and she’s raising their children on her own. In addition, her father is approaching eighty, and her mother is literally now a two-toed sloth. She feels stuck in her life and ambitions, a victim of the sandwich generation. Then, on the cusp of Singapore’s ninetieth birthday, as a frightening epidemic threatens the country, a well-meaning acquaintance kidnaps Leia’s mother from her habitat, and mother and daughter must go on the run from the authorities. As Leia confronts her unresolved grief, a series of uncanny encounters makes her doubt her own sanity and whether she’ll ever be able to return to a normal life.

For fans of Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll, The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender, and The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien.

Published: Nov/2026

ISBN: 9789815368468

Length: 224 Pages

Languishing Under Glass

Jason Erik Lundberg

A magical realist journey to repair a fractured mother-daughter relationship, set against a near-future Singapore encapsulated by a monumental glass dome.

Leia Ooi’s husband died two years ago, and she’s raising their children on her own. In addition, her father is approaching eighty, and her mother is literally now a two-toed sloth. She feels stuck in her life and ambitions, a victim of the sandwich generation. Then, on the cusp of Singapore’s ninetieth birthday, as a frightening epidemic threatens the country, a well-meaning acquaintance kidnaps Leia’s mother from her habitat, and mother and daughter must go on the run from the authorities. As Leia confronts her unresolved grief, a series of uncanny encounters makes her doubt her own sanity and whether she’ll ever be able to return to a normal life.

For fans of Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll, The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender, and The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Amazon

Jason Erik Lundberg

Jason Erik Lundberg was born in New York, grew up in North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author and anthologist of 30 books, including A Fickle and Restless Weapon(2020), Most Excellent and Lamentable (2019), Diary of One Who Disappeared (2019), Carol the Coral(2016), Strange Mammals (2013), Embracing the Strange (2013), The Alchemy of Happiness (2012), Fish Eats Lion (2012) and Fish Eats Lion Redux (2022), Red Dot Irreal (2011), the bestselling six-book Bo Bo and Cha Cha children’s picture book series (2012–2015), and the award-winning and bestselling biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series (est. 2013). He served as Fiction Editor at Epigram Books for nearly twelve years (where the books he edited won multiple awards, and made various year’s best lists), as well as Founding Editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction (2012–2018). His writing has been anthologised widely, honourably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and translated into half a dozen languages. He currently lectures on contemporary publishing, editorial theory & practice, and creative writing at Nanyang Technological University.