{"product_id":"close-to-home-by-alice-pung-9781760640910","title":"Close to Home","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of award-winning author Alice Pung's most loved writing, ranging across migration, identity, food, art, craft and more. This is Alice at her best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA brilliant collection from one of Australia’s leading writers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClose to Home\u003c\/em\u003e brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging, and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best—an irresistible pleasure for fans and new readers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2006, Alice Pung published \u003cem\u003eUnpolished Gem\u003c\/em\u003e, her award-winning memoir of growing up Chinese-Australian in Melbourne's western suburbs. Since then, she has written on everything from the role of grandparents to the corrosive effects of racism; from the importance of literature to the legacy of her parents' migration from Cambodia as asylum seekers. In all of this, a central idea is home—how the places we live and the connections we form shape who we become, and what homecoming can mean to those who build their lives in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Most people have an idea of home as a place of comfort and safety. But it is more than that. Your home is a place where your suffering can take shelter.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Alice Pung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46370256322796,"sku":"9781760640910","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23796043482814.jpg?v=1744806796","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/close-to-home-by-alice-pung-9781760640910","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}