Girl is preparing a PhD on the work of Sylvia Plath and has been awarded a scholarship for a residency in Scotland. Born into a Malaysian-Chinese family who moved to Australia the day before her birth, a Girl must carry the legacy of her parents’ country but also find her own identity. Where is the balance between the straight-A student and the messy and unfocused young woman ? The scholarship will take her away from her family, allowing her to understand better what they mean to her. She also develops a strange friendship with one of the other guest artists, which makes Girl uneasy and lost. Reflexions on the meaning of family, male behaviour, skin colour and being a writer swirl in this fresh coming-of-age novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“My tears are sad but also red, welted with the hot rush, and I think: This anger, then, is my inheritance. My anger is the sin of the father falling to the third and the fourth generations; my anger is my inheritance, my gold, my power in weakness.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Girl is preparing a PhD on the work of Sylvia Plath and has been awarded a scholarship for a residency in Scotland. Born into a Malaysian-Chinese family who moved to Australia the day before her birth, a Girl must carry the legacy of her parents’ country but also find her own identity. Where is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[255,251],"tags":[31,94,32],"class_list":["post-14263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2024","category-year-of-reading-2024","tag-family","tag-literature","tag-women"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/scot-kennedy-2f9no06RDj0-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14574,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions\/14574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}