Sandi Tan's first novel tells the ghost history of Singapore

Sandi Tan sold The Black Isle to Mitch Hoffman at Grand Central Publishingvia agent Barbara Braun. The book is a "ghost history" of Singapore, "in which an
elderly psychic recounts her amazing role in the growth of the city
state from a backward island haunted by countless spirits to a sleek
center of world finance."

The author is Singaporean, but now lives in Pasadena, California.