TIGER DAUGHTER

Tiger Daughter is a powerful and authentic novel about growing up Asian in Australia. It draws on the author's own experiences as a recent migrant with a strict, traditional, Singaporean-Chinese family.

My study buddy, Henry, is more stubborn than I am and keeps telling me I'm getting better all the time. He's made it his mission to get me to an A in maths the way I'm trying to get him to an A in English. Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of immigrants whose move to 'the lucky country' has proven to be not so lucky. Her parents have brought their rigid cultural expectations for her with them and Wen finds them narrow and stifling. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum and dad are also poor immigrants - dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and form a plan to each win a place at a prestigious selective high school. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen's resilience and resourcefulness to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is a novel that will grab hold of you and not let go. Rebecca Lim is a writer, illustrator, editor and lawyer based in Melbourne. She is the author of over twenty books, including The Astrologer's Daughter (a Kirkus Best Book of 2015 and CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers), Afterlight and the bestselling Mercy. Her work has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, Aurealis Award, INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award and Davitt Award, and has also been longlisted for the Gold Inky Award and the David Gemmell Legend Award. She is a co-founder of the Voices from the Intersection initiative to support emerging young adult and children's authors, illustrators and publishing professionals who are Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTIQA or living with disability, and a co-editor of Meet Me at the Intersection, a groundbreaking anthology of YA #OwnVoice memoir, poetry and fiction.