All Who Live On Islands

By Rose Lu

$30.00

All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history – a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas – to explore friendship, the weight of stories told and not told about diverse cultures, and the reverberations of our parents’ and grandparents’ choices. Frank and compassionate, Rose Lu’s stories illuminate the cultural and linguistic questions that migrants face, as well as what it is to be a young person living in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand.

'All Who Live on Islands is fabulous. What's striking is how assured Lu's voice is and how confidently she traverses big issues, like race, class, gender and belonging. From an immigrant perspective, it was at times painful for how recognisable it was.' —Brannavan Gnanalingam

Format: Paperback
Page Count: 240 pages
Imprint: Victory University Press
Published: November 2019
ISBN:  9781776562893

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