One Hundred Days [signed]

Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image, previous owner stamp in FEP

A coming-of-age literary novel set in Melbourne, Australia, One Hundred Days chronicles the story of Karuna, a teenage girl navigating the suffocating grip of an overprotective mother while discovering her own identity, desires, and voice. Alice Pung crafts a deeply intimate and emotionally resonant narrative that unfolds across one hundred days of a Melbourne summer, during which Karuna secretly befriends neighbours in the housing commission flats where she lives and begins to push against the walls her mother has built around her. The tone is tender yet quietly urgent, balancing the warmth of a daughter's love with the claustrophobic tension of a relationship defined by fear and control. Pung illustrates with remarkable precision the complexities of immigrant family dynamics, intergenerational trauma, and the fierce, complicated bond between mothers and daughters. Readers who appreciate nuanced, character-driven fiction rooted in a specific cultural landscape will find this novel both deeply moving and profoundly insightful.