The Last Show at the Rex

About this book

When sound archivist Mei Foong Cheong inherits a ring of brass keys and the derelict Rex Cinema on Jalan Sultan Yussuf, she expects to spend a weekend clearing out her late grandfather's projection booth. Instead she finds a ledger recording every screening for thirty years, a reel labelled with a date that matches no film ever made, and a photograph of a young usherette named Lena Prakash, who everyone agrees ran away to Singapore in 1975. Nobody quite meets Meimei's eye when they say it. As she splices the footage together frame by frame, a gentler and stranger truth develops in the dark.