A review by ipekreading
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
4.0
This book had so many thing I enjoy in books that I knew I would end up loving it as soon as I read the synopsis. 17-year-old Denny Tran gets dinner at a restaurant in Cabramatta, Australia with his friends and is murdered. Despite the restaurant being busy, all witnesses claim to know nothing. Denny's sister Ky, a journalist, returns home for the funeral and starts investigating what happened to her brother and trying to parse the meaning of all the silences.
Despite it being classified as a mystery, in a lot of places this one was light on the mystery. While I was curious to find out the truth, this was a story of so many other things. Dealing with loss, generational conflicts, pressures to adapt and succeed, trying to fit in at the only place you can call home, especially when "home" is unsafe for so many reasons, all through lenses of vivid characters. I also hadn't known anything about how Cabramatta used to be and I went through a wikipedia dive because it sounded so crazy (and yep it was pretty crazy and sad).
Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow and @bookclubgirl for the ARC.
Despite it being classified as a mystery, in a lot of places this one was light on the mystery. While I was curious to find out the truth, this was a story of so many other things. Dealing with loss, generational conflicts, pressures to adapt and succeed, trying to fit in at the only place you can call home, especially when "home" is unsafe for so many reasons, all through lenses of vivid characters. I also hadn't known anything about how Cabramatta used to be and I went through a wikipedia dive because it sounded so crazy (and yep it was pretty crazy and sad).
Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow and @bookclubgirl for the ARC.