The Wangs VS The World
Jade Chang
Umami
Laia Jufresa
Nicotine
Nell Zink
PB $32.99
Charles Wang has just lost the
cosmetics fortune he built up since
emigrating to the US. Faced with this
loss, he decides to take his family to
China and attempt to reclaim his
ancestral lands. But first they must go
on a cross-country road trip.
Ultimately Charles may have to
choose between the old world and
the new, between keeping his family
intact and finally, finally fulfilling his
dream of China.
HB $27.99
Deep in the heart of Mexico City lives
Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old
who spends her days buried in novels
to forget the mysterious death of her
little sister. Over the summer she
decides to plant a garden in the
communal courtyard, and as she digs
the ground and plants her seeds, her
neighbours in turn delve into their
pasts. As the ripple effects of grief,
childlessness, illness and displacement
saturate their stories, secrets seep out
and questions emerge.
PB $29.99
Left weightless and unmoored after
being the only member of her family
with time for her dying father, Penny
then finds his property occupied by a
group of squatters, united in defence
of smokers' rights—and herself
unexpectedly besotted with them,
particularly Rob, the hot bicycle-andtobacco activist. Totally addictive and
dangerously good, Nicotine is a
fiercely funny novel in which passion
is politics and nonviolence is the
opposite of surrender.
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies
How I Became a North Korean
Krys Lee
PB $23.99
In the wake of the Civil War, aging
itinerant news reader Captain Kidd
agrees to transport a recently rescued
young captive of the Kiowa to her
relatives in San Antonio. Their journey
proves difficult and dangerous, but as
the miles pass, the two lonely
survivors begin to trust each other. In
San Antonio, Captain Kidd is faced
with a terrible choice: abandon the
girl to relatives who regard her as a
burden, or become—in the eyes of
the law—a kidnapper himself.
PB $32.99
Inspired by three figures who lived at
pivotal moments in ChineseAmerican history, and drawing on his
own mixed-race experience, Peter Ho
Davies plunges us into what it is like
to feel, and be treated, like a foreigner
in the country you call home. Ranging
from the mouth of the Pearl River to
the land of opportunity, this novel
tells a tale of familial bonds denied
and fragmented, of