Book Description

Mr Tino is a 66-year-old sundry store owner, a devoted husband to his dementia-stricken wife and a loving father. One evening, his wife wanders outside and nearly gets hit by a truck if not for Mr Tino’s superhuman strength that he surprisingly discovers he has. As Mr Tino comes to terms with his new powers, he learns that more children in his neighbourhood are mysteriously vanishing. Mr Tino becomes the vigilante the community desperately needs…
“Lots of pathos—it's a different kind of origin story when a hero isn't inspired by a single tragedy, but by the compounded losses that come w old age in the city slums.”—Ng Yi-Sheng, two-time Singapore Literature Prize winner