Join author and book critic Jessie Tu in conversation with Tiffany Tsao as they discuss her new release The Honeyeater.

Thursday 8 August, 6.30pm at Manly Library

A wildly inventive, chilling and intoxicating story of betrayal, ambition and love, The Honeyeater confirms that Jessie Tu is one of our most original and exciting writers.

'A sensitive meditation on what is and isn't said between mother and daughter. In a family stratified by language, Tu beautifully captures the shifting dynamic of who is the parent and who is the child.' S.L. Lim, author of Revenge.

The follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year.

$5.00 + booking fee. Bookings essential. 

Non-alcoholic refreshments and nibbles on arrival.

Books will be available for purchase and signing on the night. 

Enquiries: 8495 5028 or libraryprograms@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au

Jessie Tu is a book critic at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and a journalist for Women's Agenda. Her debut novel, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, won the ABIA for 2020 Literary Fiction Book of the Year. The Honeyeater is her second novel.

Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel The Majesties (originally published in Australia as Under Your Wings) and The Oddfits fantasy trilogy (so far, The Oddfits and The More Known World.) She has a B.A. in English literature from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in English literature from UC-Berkeley. She has translated five books from Indonesian into English. For her translation of Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington, she was awarded the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. Her translation of Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories, Mostly was awarded the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses and longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.