Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung
08 May, by in Adult Readers, Australian, Australian Asian, Cambodian, Memoir, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers
Already a many-time-many-variety award-winner in her native Australia, Alice Pung's debut memoir arrives Stateside filled with humor and bittersweet grace. Born one month after her family arrived in Melbourne, Australia, after fleeing the killing fields of Cambodia, Pung's father chooses her name for "a story...