But the Girl
'A wonderful new novel' Brandon Taylor
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2023
Summary
But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, for readers of The Idiot by Elif Batuman and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.
“I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me.”
Girl is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761046148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761046144 |
| Author: | Jessica Zhan Mei Yu |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 156mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Literature Award in the Unpublished Manuscript category. Her debut novel, But the Girl, was published by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Penguin Random House (Australia) this year and will be published with Unnamed Press in the US next March. Her essay collection, All the Stain is Tender, is set to follow.
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