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02147aam a2200325 i 4500 001 9A673682FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 240221s2023 cau 000 1 eng d 020 $a 195121398X : PAP 020 $a 9781951213985 : PAP 040 $a GCmBT $b eng $c GCmBT $e rda $d SILO 043 $a u-at--- 050 14 $a PR9619.4.Y85 $b B88 2023 082 04 $a Fiction YU 100 1 $a Yu, Jessica Zhan Mei, $e author. 245 10 $a But the girl : $b a novel / $c Jessica Zhan Mei Yu. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a Los Angeles, CA : $b The Unnamed Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 270 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Shortly 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. Unfolding 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, But the Girl is 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"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women authors $x Family relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Grandmothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $z Australia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Malaysians $z Australia $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240417024010.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A673682FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search