SHORTLISTED, STELLA PRIZE 2025
SHORTLISTED, VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD, FICTION, 2025
SHORTLISTED, AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR, FICTION, 2025
LONGLISTED, 2025 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD
‘How rare, this delicacy—this calm, sweet, desolated wisdom.’ Helen Garner
'Stupendously good' Christos Tsiolkas
Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, is now available in a new compact paperback edition.
Melanie Cheng's vivid and absorbing panorama of Australian culture was the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award for debut fiction and the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.