Overview
In this collection of short stories, Singapore Literature Prize-winner Danielle Lim probes the unseen changes which take place in the human psyche and their impact on the textures of life.Weaving through pain and healing, beauty and darkness, these silent crossings of the human heart and mind are deep and formidable. They often go unnoticed due to their quiet and subtle nature. From a man struggling to bridge the distance between him and his dying father, to the changes in the human psyche when people are pit competitively against one another, these stories seek to draw out the emotional and psychological threads which form the tapestry of lived experience.With its portraits of love and loss, loneliness and heartache, hope and healing, And Softly Go the Crossings challenges the reader to encounter human connection through soft, yet powerful, inner rhythms.Author Biography
Danielle Lim’s first book, The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, a LifeJourney, was co-winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (non-fiction).The memoir has been translated to Chinese and published in Taiwan, as wellas translated to Tamil and published in India.Her second book, Trafalgar Sunrise, a novel exploring Sars and leprosy, waspublished in 2018 and was a finalist in the Singapore Book Awards 2019 forBest Literary Work.Danielle graduated from the University of Oxford and is based in Singapore,where she is a Lecturer at the Nanyang Polytechnic and Republic Polytechnic.