JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU But The Girl. Reviewed by Ann Skea
The protagonist of Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel is meant to be writing about Sylvia Plath and race, but finds herself in Scotland with writer’s block. I was meant...
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