But the Girl

Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Unnamed Press, 2024

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"Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me."  Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectations and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family. At last Girl has an opportunity to live on her own terms.  Unfolding across Girl's time at an artist residency in Scotland as she makes friends and enemies alike in a world far removed from any she's ever known, But the Girl is a wry and playfully philosophical coming of age novel that reveals the joys, embarrassments, pleasures, and agonies of trying to discover and understand who you are. Girl grapples with the long shadow of colonialism, the pressure of expectations in immigrant families, and the sometimes difficult fact that those closest to us remain the most unknowable. …

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Titre
But the Girl
Auteur
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Éditeur
Unnamed Press
Année de publication
2024
État de l'article
Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
195121398X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781951213985

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