Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

But the Girl -- Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Paperback

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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.



Author: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.87h x 4.96w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781951213985

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/15/2024
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2024

Product Tags:

Bildungsromans, Coming of Age, Fiction, Fiction - General, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Paperback, Psychological, Unnamed Press, Women

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