Her Father's Daughter

At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her parents, who want more than anything to keep her from harm. Her father fears for her safety to an extraordinary degree – but why?As she digs further into her father’s story, Alice embarks on a journey of painful discovery: of memories lost and found, of her own fears for the future, of history and how it echoes down the years. Set in Melbourne, China and Cambodia, Her Father’s Daughter captures a father–daughter relationship in a moving and astonishingly powerful way.

Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award 2012 Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award 2012

‘A beautiful exploration of father-daughter relationships.’ -- Vogue
"This is poignant, sophisticated prose, some of the finest you’ll read in the genre." -- The Age
"Written in lucid and affecting prose, Her Father’s Daughteris ultimately a filial love song that carries with it the notes of acceptance and understanding." -- Australian Book Review
"Pung makes everything she writes about shine." -- The Australian

Alice Pung’s first book, Unpolished Gem, won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer of the Year Award and was nominated for the Victorian and New South Wales premiers’ literary awards. She edited the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia and her work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Age, The Best Australian Stories and Meanjin. Dana Miltins studied acting at the Centre for the Performing Arts in Adelaide, and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. She’s worked in theatre, film and television both in Australia and the United States. Recent credits include: shows for Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Independent and Melbourne Workers Theatre; and appearances on McLeod’s Daughters and The Pacific. Dana is also passionately involved with an exciting Australian theatre company, The Rabble, and she has performed in Cageling, The Bedroom Project, and Salome for the company.

"Baltimore Portraitsis a rich and stark picture of community: as beautiful as it is ugly, as depressing as it is joyful, as lean as it is full. Badertscher's photographs and their scrawling inscriptions are telling stories that we long to hear (or not hear) but rarely get. By picturing the unpictured, by writing the unsaid, our expectations are meaningfully betrayed."-Carol Mavor, author ofPleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

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