Heartland
 The narrative follows the coming-of-age story of Wing Seng, a young ethnic Chinese at the threshold of adulthood. The novel starts when he is eighteen years old, in his second year of his junior college and facing enlistment into national service. Wing Seng has two good friends in junior college: Sham, an Indian, and Audrey, a female friend. He starts a relationship with schoolmate and environmentalist, Chloe, but finds her upper middle class background clashes with his more modest one. Eventually he is enlisted and undergoes the gruelling three-month Basic Military Training at Pulau Tekong. He makes friend with Yong, a lower middle-class boy who speaks only Singlish, and befriends his younger sister May Lin. Wing also learns harsh truths about his own family along the way.