A gripping, emotionally-relentless story about Ky, a Vietnamese-Australian woman, who comes home to her parents in Cabramatta after her brother Denny is beaten to death in a restaurant celebrating his graduation. Ky, struggling to process her grief and guilt, takes leave from her job as a journalist and plunges into investigating her brother's death, and why no-one at the restaurant witnessed anything.

Ky and her parents' grief is so raw and difficult to read, it is beautifully done. While my brief blurb makes this sound like a murder mystery, it's not particularly. The question of how Denny died is what the story is strung around, but it is not the heart of the book - which instead delves into Ky's family and their community's experiences after their arrival in Australia, and how this affects the trajectory of their lives.

Copy received courtesy of NetGalley.