Tracey Lien Tracey Lien i(23664012 works by)
Born: Established: Sydney South West, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Tracey Lien was born and raised in South Western Sydney. She earned her MFA at the University of Kansas and was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. (https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008511913/all-thats-left-unsaid/)

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y separately published work icon All That’s Left Unsaid Chatswood : HQ Fiction , 2022 23664058 2022 single work novel crime

'‘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, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. That night, Denny – optimistic, guileless, valedictorian Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, a racist 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 her brother’s case: several people were present at Denny’s murder, but each bystander claims to have seen nothing.

'Ky sets aside her grief and determines to track down the witnesses herself. Peeling back the layers of the place that shaped her, Ky confronts the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died, and finds that the seeds of violence that led to his death were planted well before that fateful night: by colonialism, by the war in Vietnam, and by the choices they’ve all made to survive.' (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Award for Fiction
2023 longlisted Voss Literary Prize
2023 winner Readings Prizes Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
2023 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2023 winner Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2023 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2023 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Hazel Lam.
2023 longlisted The Stella Prize
2023 winner MUD Literary Prize
2023 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Fiction
2023 winner Indie Awards Debut Fiction
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