Perfect Strangers: The Life And Times Of Singapore Migrant Workers

Extract from Author

Aged six to 72, there we were, a household of five gathered around the light of our television set. That we were even watching a free-to-air broadcast in one room seemed primitive—we hadn’t done that in at least a decade. As Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong rolled out “circuit breaker” measures, dread filled my gut: This thing called the COVID-19 global pandemic was upending Singapore’s usual tidiness, wiping out any Lego Movie illusion that “everything is awesome”.

Written by
Serene Goh,
Harper's Bazaar

Photographed by
Bryan van der Beek,
Harper's Bazaar

Tuesday,
14 July 2020

Merit Award, Story