Fountaindale Public Library

All that's left unsaid, a novel, Tracey Lien

eng

no index present

fiction

All that's left unsaid

1334494213

Tracey Lien

a novel

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, Denny - optimistic, guileless, brilliant Denny - is 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 Denny's case: a dozen people were in the room when Denny died, but each of the bystanders claims to have seen nothing. Ky determines to track down the witnesses herself. With each encounter, she peels back another layer of the place that shaped Denny and her, 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 they've all made to survive

adult

All that is left unsaid