Rebecca Lim’s Tiger Daughter, was inspired largely by the writer’s fury about the lack of diversity on school booklists, and desire to dispel myths about migrants and refugees. Now the book has taken out the TheCBCA's top award for older readers | Ker...
Tiger Daughter,
Even so, the Melbourne-based author creates a world familiar to many adolescents feeling impatient to grow up. “What I feel most days is that nothing is ever going to change. That my life won’t even start and that I’ll be stuck like this forever,” says Wen at one point in the book.also deliberately challenges the model minority myth. “Everyone just looks at us and goes, ‘Asian people just put their heads down and work hard’,” says Lim.
Lim herself as a child gave up on Enid Blyton books and stories about the Hardy Brothers because the realities depicted were foreign to her; she soon discovered Buck Rogers, which opened up a whole new world.She wants to illustrate that every child’s reality is different. “So that kid in the corner you tease whose pants are too short, there’s a whole world going on with him that none of you have access to.
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