Published on 04 Jan 2026

Start a new chapter with SingLit books

In this feature, The Sunday Times features some home-grown titles that will be published this year. One of them is Unease by NTU’s Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn, whose This Is What Inequality Looks Like (2018) remains a defining text. In Unease, she turns her rapier-like eyes on the Singaporean family to understand how kiasu parents are made and why work-life balance remains elusive here despite pro-family rhetoric and policies.

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