Description
Winner of the Non-Fiction Prize at the 2011 Western Australian Book AwardsAt 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 f
Collection
Publication
Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc., 2011.
Pages
241
User reviews
LibraryThing member Faradaydon
Strangely unsatisfying. Doesn't live up to the promise of Pung's first book.
LibraryThing member lesleynicol
To begin with I didn't like this book much. The author is writing a personal family story, but in the third person, which I found hard to get used to. Her style is also very short and sharp and does not allow for many descriptive passages. However when I became accustomed to this style I quite
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liked the story and realised that she was deliberately distancing herself in order to tell her father's story. His deliberate attempts to disremember the past and her desire to know, eventually helped her to understand why her father was so strict and possessive. Show Less
Awards
Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Nominee — Nettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction — 2012)
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Winner — Non-fiction — 2011)
Original publication date
2011-07-01