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Highly commended at the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – Nonfiction
Longlisted at the 2025 Stella Prize
“Despite being incredibly personal experiences, which gives the collection an idiosyncratic edge, the universality of Tan’s subjects are indisputably what makes parts of the work shine.”
Review by Danny Yazdani (Aniko Press)
“[…] she’s a trickster writer who judges her own performance.”
Review by Rosemary Sorensen (Independent Australia)
“These days, the essay has become a careful little dance of confession, vulnerability and relatability. Cher Tan’s not playing and she’s certainly no Jia Tolentino.”
Review by Jane O’Sullivan (Art Guide Australia)
“Cher Tan delivers the reader the mirror held up to society and shatters it with a hammer.”
2025 Stella Prize Judges’ Report
“[…] invigoratingly thoughtful, playful and stylistically uncompromising in the best of senses".”
The Booklist by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll (The Age)