What a wonderful book! I loved this one. It's so layered and nuanced. It's like a family drama, inside a crime novel, inside a recent historical fiction (1990's). The families in the story are not real, but the back drop of a suburb going through a heroin epidemic, and the people living there, and the immigration stories from Vietnamese families fleeing after the war are all based on very real events.

Set in Cabramatta in the 90's, it is the story of Ky whose younger brother Denny has been killed while out celebrating the end of Year 12. Ky returns home for the funeral and learns that no one seems to know exactly what happened that night, so she sets out to find out. It's heartbreaking and frustrating and all told so beautifully. Tracey Lien is an incredible writer.

I'm really glad I finally picked it up.