A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at 7, she has always struggled with issues of identity. One day, she goes back to Malaysia for her grandmother' s funeral and discovers that her mother - long-thought-dead - is alive. Set in a fictionalised Kuala Lumpur (KL), Katie struggles to reconnect with her mother whom she discovers is Malay. Navigating KL' s underground music scene and the underlying tensions of a country she doesn' t understand, how far is Katie willing to go to find a place to belong?
| ISBN: | 9789815127812 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2023 |
| Author: | SuMay Tan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Adventure Stories Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |