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Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me - Kindle edition by Pung, Alice. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me/5(8). Kien and Kuan ’s daughter, Huyen Thai ’s granddaughter, and the protagonist of Unpolished www.doorway.ru is the first Pung born on Australian soil after her family escapes the violence of Pol Pot and the Cambodian Killing Fields. Her father names her after Lewis Carroll’s famous story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, because Australia is an “enchanted Wonder Land.”. Unpolished Gem Summary. Alice Pung ’s memoir, Unpolished Gem, begins when her parents, Kuan and Kien, arrive in Victoria, Australia with her paternal grandmother, Huyen Thai, and her aunt, Que. Alice’s story “does not begin on a boat,” she says, but on the streets of Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, where the streetlights stop traffic.

Click to read more about Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Unpolished gem: my mother, my grandmother, and me Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Unpolished gem: my mother, my grandmother, and me by Pung, Alice. Publication date Topics Pung, Alice, Pung, Alice, Asians, Asians, Children of immigrants, Chinese, Cambodians. Funny, charming, moving, and unfailingly honest, Alice Pung's memoir Unpolished Gem captures the best and worst of life in a new country. Her perspective of three generations—her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own—presents moments of great humor as well as moments of acute emotional pain.

Read Unpolished Gem My Mother, My Grandmother And Me ebook mobile. Posted by gimam on 0 Comments. Read Next → Unpolished Gem eBook by Alice Pung. Funny, charming, moving, and unfailingly honest, Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem captures the best and worst of life in a new country. Her perspective of three generations—her grandmother’s, her mother’s, and her own—presents moments of great humor as well as moments of acute emotional pain. This passage underscores the psychological damage that Kien and Huyen Thai’s gossip has on Alice. She is convinced her mother will leave her, yet she is worried that neither her mother nor her grandmother will love her if she stops spreading their hateful words.