return: a poetry collection

Over the course of a year, these 99 poems document the constant battle between the author and rebellion, responsibilities, relationships, and poetry itself in the ever-churning life of a teenager in Silicon Valley. In her attempt to find a balance among the views of family, peers, and self, Jia Seow seeks the comfort of answers within the reality she has challenged in her exit from childhood, and at the same time learns to accept what can and cannot be changed. Through the following collection, her struggle – the strain of building and maintaining a sense of belonging among others and herself – endures the beginnings of the revolution within her, where both weakness and tenacity thrive in their dissonance.