All That’s Left Unsaid
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
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‘A stunner of a novel . . . powerful’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘The beautiful prose delivers a complex and heart-wrenching (but at times funny) story’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Beautifully constructed . . . gorgeous’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Tragic, beautifully written, a mystery inside a family saga’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘This is a brilliant read . . . had me engaged from the start’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Written with a raw, aching tone, it grabs you and spits you out – wiser and sadder, yet cautiously optimistic’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction • Winner of the MUD Literary Prize • Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist
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They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying.
‘Just let him go.’
Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. That night, Denny – optimistic, naive Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant.
Returning home for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case. Even though several people were present at Denny’s murder, each bystander claims to have seen nothing, and they are all staying silent.
Determined to uncover the truth, Ky questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night. The silence has always been there, threaded through the generations, and as Ky peels back the layers of the place that shaped her, she must confront more than the reasons her brother is dead. And once those truths have finally been spoken, how can any of them move on?
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‘Tracey Lien’s first novel is a deeply moving tale of rage, regret and resilience . . . A brilliant debut’ The Times
‘An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping' Liane Moriarty
‘A gripping and unflinching narrative that is as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable’ Karin Slaughter
About the author
Born and raised in South Western Sydney, Australia, Tracey Lien earned her MFA at the University of Kansas and was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Tracey now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
All That’s Left Unsaid is her debut novel and is the winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and the MUD Literary Prize. It has also been shortlisted for the Literary Fiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for New Writers in the ABIA Awards, as well as being a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
For more information about Tracey and her writing, follow her at @hellotraceylien on Instagram.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1996, Lien's insightful, emotional debut intelligently incorporates cultural concerns into a tightly focused mystery. Journalist Ky Tran has just launched her career as a newspaper reporter when she returns home to her Vietnamese community of Cabramatta, Australia, for the funeral of her popular 17-year-old brother, Denny, who was beaten to death at the Lucky 8 restaurant on the night of his high school graduation. Since Ky's grief-stricken parents, who speak limited English, are incapable of pushing for answers, and the police are stymied because none of the dozens of bystanders at the Lucky 8, some family friends, will admit to witnessing Denny's murder, she decides to investigate herself. Ky must maneuver around her parents' traditional ways, fear of white people, and superstitions rooted in their Vietnamese culture. The 100% white police force is, at best, indifferent as the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta is a refugee enclave with the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history and where violent crime is the norm. Lien skillfully blends xenophobia and the Vietnamese residents' suspicions of outsiders into a scintillating plot. Readers will eagerly await Lien's next.
