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'‘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, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. That night, Denny – optimistic, guileless, valedictorian Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, a racist police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history.
'Returning home to Cabramatta for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case: several people were present at Denny’s murder, but each bystander claims to have seen nothing.
'Ky sets aside her grief and determines to track down the witnesses herself. Peeling back the layers of the place that shaped her, Ky confronts the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died, and finds that the seeds of violence that led to his death were planted well before that fateful night: by colonialism, by the war in Vietnam, and by the choices they’ve all made to survive.' (Publication summary)
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Author's note: For mu parents
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Selected as one of the Guardian Australia best Australian books of 2022
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Tracey Lien on Writing Family, Home and Place
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2024
27642765
2024
single work
podcast
interview
'Tracey Lien was born and raised in southwestern Sydney and now lives in Brooklyn. All That’s Left Unsaid is her debut novel, and it won the Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction, the MUD Literary Prize, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize.' (Production summary)
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Australia in Three Books
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 24)
— Review of Up, Not Down, Mate! : Thoughts from a Prison Cell 1981 selected work poetry ; Carpentaria 2006 single work novel ; All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel -
Tracey Lien
May Ngo
(interviewer),
2023
single work
interview
— Appears in: Liminal , April 2023; -
Tuoi Tre Thieu Tinh Thuong : Inherited Trauma and Violence in Cabramatta
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 228-232) Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel -
Death Reveals Testing Lives
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10 September 2022; (p. 16)
— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel
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Death Reveals Testing Lives
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10 September 2022; (p. 16)
— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel -
Tuoi Tre Thieu Tinh Thuong : Inherited Trauma and Violence in Cabramatta
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 228-232) Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel -
Australia in Three Books
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 24)
— Review of Up, Not Down, Mate! : Thoughts from a Prison Cell 1981 selected work poetry ; Carpentaria 2006 single work novel ; All That’s Left Unsaid 2022 single work novel -
Tracey Lien
May Ngo
(interviewer),
2023
single work
interview
— Appears in: Liminal , April 2023; -
y
Tracey Lien on Writing Family, Home and Place
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2024
27642765
2024
single work
podcast
interview
'Tracey Lien was born and raised in southwestern Sydney and now lives in Brooklyn. All That’s Left Unsaid is her debut novel, and it won the Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction, the MUD Literary Prize, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize.' (Production summary)
Awards
- 2023 longlisted Voss Literary Prize
- 2023 winner Readings Prizes — Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
- 2023 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2023 winner Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2023 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- Cabramatta, Fairfield area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1996