But the girl [Paperback]
Yu, Jessica Zhan Mei2023
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Girl is spending the spring at an artist's residency in Scotland. Far from her home in Australia and her tight-knit Malaysian family, she is meant to be writing a postcolonial novel and working on a PhD on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. But she can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of her parents and grandmother who raised her. How can she reconcile their dreams for her with her lived reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What even is a 'postcolonial novel'? And what if the story of becoming yourself is not about carving out a new identity but learning to understand the people who shaped you?
Main title:
But the girl [Paperback] / Jessica Zhan Mei Yu.
Author:
Yu, Jessica Zhan Mei, author
Imprint:
Camberwell, VIC : Hamish Hamilton Australia, 2023.©2023
Collation:
220 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
97817610461489781761046148
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
541007
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | YU | Onloan - Due: 02 Jun 2024 |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | YU | Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 |