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Jade and Emerald

See-Tho, Michelle2024
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Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother. When Lei Ling is befriended by elegant, worldly socialite Gigi Nu, she is enchanted by the realm of luxury and freedom that suddenly opens up to her. Gigi encourages Lei Ling to flout her routines and treats her to designer products and expensive meals, and soon Lei Ling finds herself caught between two lives, and increasingly at odds with her exasperated mother. Then tragedy strikes, and Lei Ling discovers long-held secrets that lead her to question everything she thought she knew about the two central women in her life, and the friendship she'd held at the heart of it. Jade and Emerald is a fierce and deeply felt novel about the joys and pains of growing up, of accepting who you are and where you come from.
Main title:
Jade and Emerald / by Michelle See-Tho.
Imprint:
[Southbank, VIC] : Vintage Books Australia, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
321 pages ; 24 cm.
Awards:
Penguin Literary Prize Winner 2023.
ISBN:
9781761345180 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
462891
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
PenrithFictionSEETHOOnloan - Due: 16 Nov 2024
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