In Sister Swing, the two sisters have boyfriends and they go to bed with them, but the descriptions are not graphic. They're minimal. The sex is not graphic in the way that DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover has all these graphic passages.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.
Shirley Geok-lin LimNote, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim