Tag Archives: growing up in a migrant family
Book of the Week
Date Published: 19/07/2021
One Hundred Days by award-winning writer Alice Pung is literary fiction at its best. This mother-daughter drama and fractured fairytale explores the faultlines between love and control and throws up issues for the reader to reflect on. It is an
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Book of the Week
Date Published: 24/05/2021
Tiger Daughter is the story of growing up in Australia as a first-generation migrant child, told from the point of view of a Chinese/Australian girl. It was written by OwnVoices author Rebecca Lim, whose aim was to build empathy in
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Book of the Week
Date Published: 17/11/2019
Wai Chim describes The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling as ‘a contemporary YA novel set in Sydney that explores the difficulties, frustrations and emotional roller coaster that comes with having a parent with mental illness.’ Readers will love the
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