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Unpolished Gem
by Alice Pung
'Unpolished Gem' is a story of Alice Pung's life as a migrant coming from Cambodia, an outsider to the new country of Australia. This is a heartwarming and sometimes depressing story about how she grew up to learn that everyone is different.
Having to do this book for a school assignment, we needed to read deeply into it. Alice's interesting life living with foreign parents and family members can be a real eye-opener for people looking from the outside in. Her 'typically Asian' life, she explains, is more than study and behaving like a good daughter for her family. Alice has some tough times in her life and some parts of the book can be confronting. Others are sweet and charming, showing her sense of family pride.
I enjoyed Alice's comical and witty style of writing, making every memory of hers play out through the words. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and how unafraid Alice Pung was to share the memorable and truly solemn parts of her life, always keeping me aware through her somewhat metaphorical way of sharing things.
Having to do this book for a school assignment, we needed to read deeply into it. Alice's interesting life living with foreign parents and family members can be a real eye-opener for people looking from the outside in. Her 'typically Asian' life, she explains, is more than study and behaving like a good daughter for her family. Alice has some tough times in her life and some parts of the book can be confronting. Others are sweet and charming, showing her sense of family pride.
I enjoyed Alice's comical and witty style of writing, making every memory of hers play out through the words. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and how unafraid Alice Pung was to share the memorable and truly solemn parts of her life, always keeping me aware through her somewhat metaphorical way of sharing things.