This book wasn’t even really on my #tbr I’d seen it floating about #bookstagram & then found it at my local op-shop & decided, on a whim, to give it a go.
I spent half my childhood in this area, during this exact time, & was so oblivious to any of this. It’s a life I cannot wholly relate to, so the storyline of the murder & figuring it all out become almost secondary to that side of the book for me. I really enjoyed the different perspectives & people that brought the story together & the topics that were covered, things I grew up so ignorant to. I feel like I actually learnt something more about Asian Australians, the history of that time, the expectations that these kids were raised with, the way they would have felt about Australian “white” kids in comparison & the vast differences in the way we were raised. The clash of cultures was just so eye-opening. I’m glad I decided to give this one a go.