Grace Yee

Grace Yee's follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish. In the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo, the remains of more than a thousand 'chinamen' lie interred, many in unmarked graves. Most were sojourners from the Canton region in south China who found themselves unable to return to their homeland. Joss: A History is inspired by the lived experiences...

Winner, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, Mary and Peter Briggs Award for Poetry Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2024 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she...