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a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhood

  • Written by: Roanna Gonsalves, Lecturer in Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhoodJessica Zhan Mei YuLeah Jing Macintosh

Many contemporary novels adamantly refuse readers a pleasurable reading experience – with clunky prose and a cloying earnestness. But life’s too short for boring books.

Mercifully, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, But The Girl, is effervescent on the page. It enhances the pleasure of...

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