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2022 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Phenomenal Book Club Pick! For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother’s...

**** When Chancey and Tommy Luu came to Australia, they believed they were building something secure for their daughters: a life safer and steadier than the one they'd left behind. But in 2005, as riots erupt across Sydney, that security has started to crack – especially when ten-year-old...

‘A complex, harrowing look into the impacts on trauma on a community, written with the urgent pace of a thriller and peppered with moments of levity’ Vogue Australia 'An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping. I just loved it!' Liane...

Tracey Liens beeindruckendes Debüt: Literarischer Thriller und bewegendes Familiendrama um Identität, Schuld und Sühne. "Lasst ihn doch gehen." Die junge Ky, Tochter vietnamesischer Einwanderer, empfindet bittere Reue, ihren Eltern diesen Satz gesagt zu haben. Nun ist ihr Bruder Denny tot, vor aller Augen ermordet auf der Feier seines erfolgreichen Schulabschlusses. Und nach Jahren kehrt Ky nach Cabramatta zurück, ein Einwanderervorort von Sydney, wo ihre Eltern noch immer leben.

‘Just let him go.’ Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. That night, Denny–optimistic, guileless, valedictorian Denny–is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history.

**** When Chancey and Tommy Luu came to Australia, they believed they were building something secure for their daughters: a life safer and steadier than the one they'd left behind. But in 2005, as riots erupt across Sydney, that security has started to crack – especially when ten-year-old...

A captivating portrait of an immigrant family burdened by shameful secrets as they race to save the life they have built, from award-winning author Tracey Lien Sydney, Australia, 2005 Riots have erupted on North Cronulla Beach, turning neighbors and friends against each other and exposing the...