6horts 6 Pangyau

Against the bustling backdrop of Kuala Lumpurs Chinatown a MalayMuslim narrator reminisces about a teenage relationship between himself and an ethnic Chinese classmate Pangyau the Cantonese word for friend is not just the story of a close friendship but a prism through which the writer gets to examine his feelings about the the ways in which race and religion have been used in the national sociopolitical discourse