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Close to Home

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By Alice Pung
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Close to Home by Alice Pung is a poignant exploration of identity and belonging as Pung delves into her family's experiences as Cambodian Chinese migrants in Melbourne. Through personal anecdotes, she reflects on the cultural challenges, familial bonds, and her journey to find harmony between her heritage and her life in Australia. The memoir captures the nuanced struggles and joys of navigating dual identities with grace and introspection.
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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by personal stories reflecting on the migrant experience in Australia, offering insights into cultural identity, family dynamics, and the journey of finding one's place in the world. Alice Pung's storytelling provides both heartfelt and thought-provoking perspectives that many readers find deeply resonant and authentic.

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A collection of award-winning author Alice Pung's most loved writing, ranging across migration, identity, food, art, craft and more. This is Alice at her best.

A brilliant collection from one of Australia’s leading writers

Close to Home brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging, and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best—an irresistible pleasure for fans and new readers alike.

In 2006, Alice Pung published Unpolished Gem, her award-winning memoir of growing up Chinese-Australian in Melbourne's western suburbs. Since then, she has written on everything from the role of grandparents to the corrosive effects of racism; from the importance of literature to the legacy of her parents' migration from Cambodia as asylum seekers. In all of this, a central idea is 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.

'Most people have an idea of home as a place of comfort and safety. But it is more than that. Your home is a place where your suffering can take shelter.' - Alice Pung

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760640910

Publisher: Black Inc.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 October 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: Black Inc.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Alice Pung is an award-winning writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of Unpolished Gem and Her Father's Daughter and the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her most recent book is On John Marsden. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

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