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Title: Close to Home: Selected Writings
Author: PUNG ALICE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/10/2018
Imprint: BLACK INC
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
Since publishing her award-winning memoir
Unpublished Gem in 2006, Alice Pung has
proved herself a significant figure within
the Australian literary landscape. Close
to Home presents a cross-section of her
short nonfiction writing, and it is testament
to Pung’s remarkable talent as a writer:
attentive, funny and empathetic. Divided
into loosely themed sections, these essays
explore migration, racism, parenthood,
identity politics, literature and more. Many
circle around home and homecoming, and
Pung posits vital questions about what this
means in modern Australia. While parts of
the book are upsetting, the author’s humour,
generosity and evident curiosity imbue her
writing with tangible warmth that will charm
both fans and newcomers.
ISBN: 9781760640910
Pages: 288