Let's Give it Up for Gimme Lao!

"Born on the night of Singapore's independence, Gimme Lao is cheated of the honor of becoming the nation's first born by a vindictive nurse. This was the first of three things he would never know about himself. The second was the circumstances surrounding his parents' marriage and the third was the profound but often unintential impact he had on other people's lives"--Backcover.