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BUT THE GIRL - JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU GEBUNDEN

Irreverent  witty and wise  But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave
your family behind'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world' BRANDON TAYLOR  author of REAL
LIFE 'A skilled and singular new talent' LIST 'The voice sometimes recalls Lucia Berlin  JD
Salinger or Lorrie Moore but it's entirely her own' SHARLENE TEO  author of PONTI 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. 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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