![]() ![]() Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum and dad are also struggling immigrants - both dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selective high school far from home. Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. That my life won't even start, and that I'll be stuck like this forever. What I feel most days is that nothing is ever going to change. SHORTLISTED: 2021 QLD Literary Awards, Griffith University Young Adult Book Award SHORTLISTED: 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Multicultural NSW Award SHORTLISTED: 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature WINNER: 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, People's Choice WINNER: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, the CBCA shortlisted Tiger Daughter is a wonderfully compelling and authentic Own Voices novel about growing up Asian in Australia. ![]() Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. ![]()
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