Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. No wonder things are so complicated with teenagers.’-Alice Pung, ‘Nothing has a stronger hold over a girl than the fear of the thoughts of her peers – thoughts that change five times in a day. Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards General Fiction Award 2015 Won the NSW State Library Ethel Turner Prize fro Young People's Literature 2016 Idea of home: how the places we live and the connections we form shape who we become, and what homecoming can mean to those who build their lives in Australia. Grandparents to the corrosive effects of racism from the importance of literature to the legacy of her parents’ migration from Cambodia as asylum seekers. Since then, she has written on everything from the role of In 2006, Alice Pung published Unpolished Gem, her award-winning memoir of growing up Chinese-Australian in working-class Footscray. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at herīest – an irresistible delight for fans and new readers alike. This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. "Reading her, you feel welcomed into an atmosphere which is good-humoured and benevolent, charged with powerful love, and yet at the same time mercilessly scrubbed of sentimentality"
At times tense andĬlaustrophobic, it is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. One Hundred Days is a fractured fairytale exploring the faultlines between love and control. As the dueĭate draws ever closer, the question of who will get to raise the baby – who it will call Mum – festers between them. Stuck inside for endless hours, Karuna battles her mother and herself for a sense of power in her own life, as a new life forms and grows within her. Karuna’s mother, already over-protective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat, to keep her safe from the outside world – and make sure she can’t get into any more
Not on purpose, but not entirely by accident, either.
In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. It is a masterpiece, a triumph – Pung’s greatest work yet.’ -Maxine Beneba Clarke Word out of place, no sentence that doesn’t sing with poetry. Pung’s characters are so real, I could feel them in the room.
Weight of our histories, and how, no matter the fractures life throws between us, our daughters will always hum us home. ‘ One Hundred Days is the tale of mothers and daughters the world over – the relationships we navigate, the
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