Finalist for the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeBeng Hock and his brother, Beng Huat (who prefers to be called Archibald), find themselves navigating a tumultuous Singapore that has run out of oil and gas. Jobs are scarce, food scarcer, and falling afoul of the growing gangs could mean slavery or death. Home is a crumbling shanty-town behind the City Hall Steam Engine Station. And as if these changes aren't drastic enough, a great power awakens inside Beng Hock, and he must learn how to control it before it destroys everyone and everything in his way.