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02369aam a2200385 i 4500 001 3A0156A8DABE11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240305010131 008 230911t20242023cau 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2023947187 020 $a 9781951213985 020 $a 195121398X 035 $a (OCoLC)1396691235 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d MIBLS $d GO4 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-st 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 [2024] 300 $a 270 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a First published in Australia by Penguin Random House and in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape. 520 $a "Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl borads her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath and her "postcolonial novel" (If only she could work out just what that means). Though she is ambivalent towards academia and its trappings, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectation 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, embarassments, 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 difficult fact that those closest to us oftentimes remain the most unknowable." -- $c Page 4 of cover. 650 0 $a Women doctoral students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Young women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Malaysians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Australians $z Scotland $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Malaysian Australians $v Fiction 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012732.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011836.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240305011708.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3A0156A8DABE11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search