“What would they think of her now, her old lefty student friends, coming back as a fertility tourist? Was she now the colonial memsahib? The benevolent bringer of bounty or the ruthless trader, smiling her way back home?”
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My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
Her life may not be picture perfect yet, with the crushingly long commute, the box room of a bedroom in a flat-share and the oh so tight budget. But the world doesn’t need to know that. Lucky for her, instagram has afforded her the ability to portray a life that she wants people to believe she is living. In London she is Cat, not country girl Katie, brought up by a single dad in the dull hinterlands.
The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang
I wanted to write something that was very much a rebellion against our idea of the traditional immigrant novel. And I wanted to write characters that were wholly unapologetic about themselves and their desires.