EAN: 9781529922837

BUT THE GIRL - JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU TASCHENBUCH

I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals -
that 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.Irreverent  witty and wise  But the Girl is a
coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind Girl was born on the very day
her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The story goes that her
mother held on tight to her pelvic muscles in an effort to gift her the privilege of an
Australian passport. But it's hard to be the embodiment of all your family's hopes and dreams 
especially in a country that's hostile to your very existence. When Girl receives a scholarship
to travel to the UK  she is finally free for the first time. In London and then Scotland she is
meant to be working on a PhD on Sylvia Plath and writing a postcolonial novel. But Girl can't
stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of the people who raised her. How can she
reconcile their expectations with her 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 made you who you are?

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