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‘A stunner of a novel . . . powerful’ Reader review, ★★★★★‘The beautiful prose delivers a complex and heart-wrenching (but at times funny) story’ Reader review, ★★★★★‘Beautifully constructed . . . gorgeous’ Reader review, ★★★★★‘Tragic, beautifully written, a mystery inside a family saga’ Reader review, ★★★★★‘This is a brilliant read . . . had me engaged from the start’ Reader review, ★★★★★‘Written with a raw, aching tone, it grabs you and spits you out – wiser and sadder, yet cautiously optimistic’ Reader review, ★★★★★ Winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction • Winner of the MUD Literary Prize • Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist * * * They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying. ‘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. That night, Denny – optimistic, naive Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant.Returning home for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case. Even though several people were present at Denny’s murder, each bystander claims to have seen nothing, and they are all staying silent.Determined to uncover the truth, Ky questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night. The silence has always been there, threaded through the generations, and as Ky peels back the layers of the place that shaped her, she must confront more than the reasons her brother is dead. And once those truths have finally been spoken, how can any of them move on?* * *‘Tracey Lien’s first novel is a deeply moving tale of rage, regret and resilience . . . A brilliant debut’ The Times‘An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping' Liane Moriarty‘A gripping and unflinching narrative that is as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable’ Karin Slaughter

Readers are GRIPPED by ALL THAT’S LEFT UNSAID: ‘The beautiful prose delivers a complex and heart-wrenching (but at times funny) story’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A stunner of a novel . . . powerful’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Beautifully constructed . . . gorgeous’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Tragic, beautifully written, a mystery inside a family saga’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘This is a brilliant read . . . had me engaged from the start’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Written with a raw, aching tone, it grabs you and spits you out – wiser and sadder, yet cautiously optimistic’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction • Winner of the MUD Literary Prize • Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist * * * They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying. ‘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. That night, Denny – optimistic, naive Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant.Returning home for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case. Even though several people were present at Denny’s murder, each bystander claims to have seen nothing, and they are all staying silent.Determined to uncover the truth, Ky questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night. The silence has always been there, threaded through the generations, and as Ky peels back the layers of the place that shaped her, she must confront more than the reasons her brother is dead. And once those truths have finally been spoken, how can any of them move on?* * *‘Tracey Lien’s first novel is a deeply moving tale of rage, regret and resilience . . . A brilliant debut’ The Times‘An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping' Liane Moriarty‘A gripping and unflinching narrative that is as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable’ Karin Slaughter

****When Chancey and Tommy Luu came to Australia, they believed they were building something secure for their daughters: a life safer and steadier than the one they'd left behind. But in 2005, as riots erupt across Sydney, that security has started to crack – especially when ten-year-old Fiona comes home to find the house ransacked. Only one thing is missing: a ceramic treasure chest she made at school.As Fiona searches for answers, the burglary exposes the fault lines running through her family. Tommy clings to respectability with desperate force. Chancey is cornered by her own lies. Older sister Helen will do anything to be seen. And Ah Sim, the sharp-tongued matriarch who helped raise them all, knows what fear can do to a family. What emerges is a portrait of a household – and a nation – built on hope, denial, and the longing to belong. Piercing and compassionate, A Great Place to Raise a Family is a novel about migration and assimilation, the fragile architecture of family, and the distance between the life we imagine and the one we actually make. **** Praise for Tracey Lien: ‘Utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping’ Liane Moriarty‘An urgent story that commands an audience … as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable’ Karin Slaughter‘Deeply moving and truly special … a story that is both impossible to put down and impossible to forget’ Chris Whitaker

****When Chancey and Tommy Luu came to Australia, they believed they were building something secure for their daughters: a life safer and steadier than the one they'd left behind. But in 2005, as riots erupt across Sydney, that security has started to crack – especially when ten-year-old Fiona comes home to find the house ransacked. Only one thing is missing: a ceramic treasure chest she made at school.As Fiona searches for answers, the burglary exposes the fault lines running through her family. Tommy clings to respectability with desperate force. Chancey is cornered by her own lies. Older sister Helen will do anything to be seen. And Ah Sim, the sharp-tongued matriarch who helped raise them all, knows what fear can do to a family. What emerges is a portrait of a household – and a nation – built on hope, denial, and the longing to belong. Piercing and compassionate, A Great Place to Raise a Family is a novel about migration and assimilation, the fragile architecture of family, and the distance between the life we imagine and the one we actually make. **** Praise for Tracey Lien: ‘Utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping’ Liane Moriarty‘An urgent story that commands an audience … as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable’ Karin Slaughter‘Deeply moving and truly special … a story that is both impossible to put down and impossible to forget’ Chris Whitaker

Winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction • Winner of the MUD Literary Prize • Shortlisted for the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Literary Fiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for New Writers ABIA Awards • Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist‘Tracey Lien’s first novel is a deeply moving tale of rage, regret and resilience . . . A brilliant debut’ The Times‘An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping'' Liane Moriarty‘A gripping and unflinching narrative that is as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable’ Karin Slaughter* * *They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying‘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. That night, Denny – optimistic, guileless Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, and an indifferent police force.Returning home for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case. Even though several people were present at Denny’s murder, each bystander claims to have seen nothing, and they are all staying silent.Determined to uncover the truth, Ky tracks down and questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night. The silence has always been there, threaded through the generations, and Ky begins to expose the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died. As she peels back the layers of the place that shaped her, she must confront more than the reasons her brother is dead. And once those truths have finally been spoken, how can any of them move on?*‘A shocking, deeply moving and truly special debut … A richly crafted mystery, a story that is both impossible to put down and impossible to forget’Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End‘Poignant and impeccable storytelling’ Oprah Daily

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Phenomenal Book Club Pick!For fans ofEverything I Never Told YouandThe Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brothers shocking murder, determined to discover what happeneda dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and community.Just let him go.These are the 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. That night, Dennyoptimistic, guileless, brilliant Dennyis brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent 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 Dennys case: a dozen people were at Lucky 8 restaurant when Denny died, but each of the bystanders claim to have seen nothing.Desperately hoping that understanding what happened might ease her suffocating guilt, Ky sets aside her grief and determines to track down the witnesses herself. With each encounter, she peels back another layer of the place that shaped her and Denny, exposing the seeds of violence that were planted well before that fateful celebration dinner: by colonialism, by the war in Vietnam, and by the choices theyve all made to survive.Alternating between Kys voice and the perspectives of the witnesses, Tracey Liens extraordinary debut is at once heart-pounding and heart-rending as it probes the intricate bonds of friendship, family, and community through an unforgettable cast of characters, all connected by a devastating crime. Combining evocative family drama and gripping suspense,All Thats Left Unsaidis a profound and moving page turner, perfect for readers of Liz Moore, Brit Bennett, and Celeste Ng.

»Lasst ihn doch gehen.«Die junge Ky, Tochter vietnamesischer Einwanderer, empfindet bittere Reue, ihren Eltern diesen Satz gesagt zu haben. Nun ist ihr Bruder Denny tot, vor aller Augen ermordet auf der Feier seines erfolgreichen Schulabschlusses. Und nach Jahren kehrt Ky nach Cabramatta zurück, einem Einwanderervorort von Sydney, wo ihre Eltern noch immer leben. Mit ihnen will sie trauern, aber sie möchte auch Antworten auf ihre Fragen: Warum schweigen alle Augenzeugen? Warum hat sich nie jemand ernsthaft um die Aufklärung dieser Tat bemüht? Und warum hat sie selbst die Augen verschlossen vor dem Rassismus und den Ungerechtigkeiten, denen sie ausgesetzt war?Ein Drama von großer emotionaler Wucht, getragen von unvergesslichen Figuren.»Schmerzvoll und voller Schönheit.« Julia Phillips