Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction hot dog carts

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The last thing she needs now is an intense boyfriend

from the first blossoms of spring through to the stark winter wonderland in December

She discovers that there’s a lot more to her - and to everyone - than a label

Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction hot dog cartsWritten by Josephine Chia paperback The title of this non fiction book is from a Malay idiom, katak bawah tempurong. The frog who lives under the coconut shell thinks that the coconut shell is its entire world. It is a reference to the authors own mother, who although herself uneducated and living a parochial existence in a kampong or Malay village, believed in and struggled for a greater vision the right to educate her daughter. The book is a