“To read them is to be drawn into processes of juxtaposition, transformation and word-play, and to share in Ang’s strange yet precise way of seeing.”

— Dr Jane Griffiths, Literary Editor of The Oxford Magazine, Placito Fellow & Tutor in English at Wadham College

In an era of Marie Kondo and de-cluttering, the objects that we live with are the precious few that spark joy. Burning Walls for Paper Spirits is a collection about how everyday objects become invested with soul, and how we have in turn become thing-like amidst the mechanics of everyday living. While androids dream about electric sheep, we are electric sheep dreaming life into androids. We are trees who know ourselves only as paper, folded and burned. With whimsical meditations on why walls are like skin and why the rain in Singapore is capitalist, Ann Ang’s debut collection refreshes the edges of sentience dulled by an age of hot takes and commodification.