{"product_id":"but-the-girl-9781951213985","title":"But the Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"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...\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding 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, \u003ci\u003eBut the Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Zhan Mei Yu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.87h x 4.96w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781951213985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZhan Mei Yu, Jessica:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJessica Zhan Mei Yu \u003c\/b\u003eis a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Best Australian Poems, Overland, Yen, The Sydney Morning Herald, The White Review and more. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature Award in the Unpublished Manuscript category. \u003ci\u003eBut the Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel and her first essay collection, \u003ci\u003eAll the Stain is Tender\u003c\/i\u003e, is set to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unnamed Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43505294671987,"sku":"9.78195E+12","price":20.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_803f6d97-307a-4f02-a9f9-6ba8c9216046.jpg?v=1755260987","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/but-the-girl-9781951213985","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}