“…hadn’t she kept every hurt she’d ever experience from her own parents?… Because she had to help them believe that their sacrifices had paid off. After interviewing her brother’s best friend, a witness to the crime, Ky sees a connection between the lies that some of the characters tell about her brother’s death and the lies she herself perpetuates to protect her parents:
As Ky delves deeper into her investigation, she uncovers her family’s complicated past and gains a deeper understanding of the ways in which her community’s dreams have been suppressed. The first sentence of the novel, after all, relates how “the details of Denny Tran’s death were so violent that most people in Cabramatta were too spooked to attend his funeral.”Īmid this tragedy, the novel’s primary narrator, the deceased boy’s sister Ky, a reporter, sets out to uncover her brother’s killer and bring them to justice. For a suburb made up of Vietnamese refugees dealing with past traumas of their own, directly addressing the murder is seen as both dangerous and taboo. The sudden brutal killing of a high-achieving Vietnamese high school senior nearly on his way to fulfilling his parents’ dreams is met not with outrage from the community, but a disconcerting silence instead. The novel is set in Cabramatta in the 1990s, the “Little Saigon” of Sydney, during the height of the suburb’s heroin epidemic. Readers may initially anticipate a traditional mystery, but as the novel unfolds, they will discover a compelling family drama and a thought-provoking examination of an immigrant community’s doomed pursuit of the Australian dream. As the boys make a perilous journey south, they'll come face to face with a world torn apart and society in ruins.Debut author Tracey Lien’s novel, All That’s Left Unsaid, uses the frame of a detective novel to richly explore the aftermath of a violent killing that leaves a community reeling. Jamie takes him in, and as Andrew heals and they eventually step out into the strange new world, their relationship starts to feel like more than just friendship. something that stops Jamie in his tracks. Life is dangerous now and, armed with a gun, Jamie goes to pull the trigger.īut there's something about Andrew.
When the Superflu wipes out most of the population, Jamie finds himself completely alone in a cabin in the woods - until an injured stranger crosses his path.
but they may just find each other.Ī queer romance about courage, hope and humanity for fans of They Both Die at the End, The Hunger Games and Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. They don't know what they'll find on their dangerous journey. Jamie and Andrew are strangers, but they're two of the last people left alive.
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