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Growing Up Asian in Australia

Edited by

Alice Pung

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About the editor

Alice Pung

Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as …

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Praise for Growing Up Asian in Australia

“The themes are rich, the writing sharp, the humour crisp and the reflections deeply moving.”—Waleed Aly, The Sunday Age

“A warm, ticklish, heart-wrenching, hilarious and above-all joyful romp through the childhoods of Asian-Australians.”—Frankie

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Themes

Identity and belonging; Generational difference; Death and Loss; Responsibility and Expectation

Reading age

Grades 9-12

Precis

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and humour.

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Watch Benjamin Law in conversation with Andrew McDonald at The Wheeler Centre about Growing Up Asian in Australia.

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