A review by essjay1
Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw

5.0

A wonderful longform essay on belonging, on family, on home (what is home? where are we really “from” - the place some of our ancestors left or the place where we grew up?), and on the inter-generational lies we tell to keep moving forward, and the sacrifices we make for the future generations. If you have ever lived away from the place you grew up, this will resonate. A really beautiful piece of writing about what it is to exist in more than one place, to be broader than a label, to have depths beneath the shape of your face or the colour of your skin.