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Clarissa Goenawan joins the Global Girls Online Book Club to discuss her latest novel The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida — a bewitching novel set in contemporary Japan about the mysterious suicide of a young woman.

Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer. Her debut novel Rainbirds won the 2015 Bath Novel Award and was shortlisted for three further prizes. Her short stories have won several awards and been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida is her second novel.

Read a Q&A with Clarissa and a set of book club notes here.