Chinese Fish by Grace Yee

Chinese Fish by Grace YeeWhen Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her wayward husband, armed with a vacuum cleaner to 'suck all the bad thing out'. Her four children are a brood of monolingual aliens. Eldest daughter Cherry

then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable

Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award

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