Impressive Yu is the writer Girl wishes to be remaking, in her own image, the young female protagonist, the Künstlerroman, the postcolonial novel, and the art of writing itself * Guardian * But the Girl is a vivid novel of consciousness with a delightful sense of play. Jessica Zhan Mei Yu writes with striking originality that combines the irreverent and the philosophical about the ambiguities and ambivalences of contemporary life. A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world -- Brandon Taylor, author of The Late Americans A unique and meaningful novel: refreshingly unsentimental, written with a directness that is both self-effacing and wry. The voice sometimes recalls Lucia Berlin, JD Salinger or Lorrie Moore but it's entirely her own -- Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti Ambitious Embarks on an intellectual journey into the contradiction of seeing and unseeing yourself as a person of colour in a much-loved canonical book * Daily Mail * Sharp, flecked with glints of bone-dry humour... It's compellingly poignant. But the Girl is a debut that heralds a skilled and singular new talent * List * A delicate investigation into intergenerational immigrant subjectivities... Written in a flowing, internal narration that occasionally moves into moments of not-quite-real, observations of the minutiae of everyday microaggressions build up to depict the internal landscapes that minorities must uncomfortably navigate * Skinny *
