Laurinda (Alice Pung) I remember being a girl in high school. The constant worry of what others thought of you, the fear of speaking up in case what you say was ridiculed, the conflicting desires of fitting in yet also standing out, the desire to achieve and compete whilst casually pretending you couldn't care less. It all boiled down to the struggle between who you thought you should be, and who you actually were. Of course you didn't know that at the time. Reading Laurinda brings all these thoughts back to the foreground, and sadly reminds me that the struggles of school life don't seem to have changed much. Laurinda is a novel set in the fictional all-girls school named, unsurprisingly, Laurinda. It follows the narrative of Lucy Lam, a Chinese-Vietnamese immigrant who earned the inaugural "Equal Access" scholarship, and soon discovers that surviving Laurinda has little to do with academics and achievement, but more to do with politics, p...
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