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Name of Book: The Moonlight Palace Author: Liz Rosenberg ISBN: 9781477824429 Publisher: Lake Union Type of book: 1920s, Singapore, secular Muslim, royal family, genteel poverty, Asia, naive, coming-of-age, growing up, changes, trying to save the past vs letting it go, death, life, holidays Year it was published: 2014 Summary: Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British. Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on her grandfather’s pension and the meager income they receive from a varied cast of boarders. As outside forces conspire to steal the palace out from under them, Agnes struggles to save her family and finds bravery, love, and loyalty in the most unexpected places. The Moonligh...