As you board your train, your phone starts to ring. You reach into your pocket to pull it out, accidentally bumping the man behind you. While you answer your phone, he turns to you, looking angry. “Sorry,” you mouth to him, still on the phone. He rolls up his sleeves and shoves you, then grabs…
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Alice Pung’s new memoir delves into the many facets of her relationship with her Chinese-Cambodian father through the use of anecdotes, reflections, snapshots of history and re-told memories. Divided into four non-chronological parts, Her Father’s Daughter begins in modern China, explores Pung’s life in Melbourne, visits her father’s past in Cambodia during the time of…
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Stephanie-Bowie Liew reviews the acclaimed Japanese film Norwegian Wood.
