ALL THAT’S LEFT UNSAID BY TRACEY LIEN Hardback published by Harper Collins 15th September 2022
Pages 352
ISBN 9780008511890
1996 – Cabramatta, Sydney
Just let him go
Those are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. The night, Denny optimistic, guileless Denny is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, and an indifferent police force.
Returning home for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case. Even though several people were present at Denny’s murder, each bystander claims to have seen nothing, and they are all staying silent.
Determined to uncover the truth, Ky tracks down and questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night. The silence has always been there, threaded through the generations, and Ky begins to expose the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died. As she peels back the layers of the place that shaped her, she must confront more than the reasonsher brother is dead. And once those truths have finally been spoken, how can any of them move on?
MY REVIEW
I’m shouting loudly today All That’s Left Unsaid is my highest recommendation as your next read.
All that’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien its one of the most heartbreaking stories I have read, with a mixture an unsettling family drama.
On December 6th in 1996, Cabramatta, Sydney, seventeen year old, Denny Tran had been stomped to deathin Lucky 8.
Ky, Denny’s sister, was called by her father, who left a message in a Vietnamese accent, to say call back soon as possible, that this was urgent, Denny, had been killed and they were organising the funeral and that she must fly back as soon as possible.
Denny was smart, he won the Highest Academic Achievement four years in a row. He had his life mapped out, he wanted to become a doctor.
But Denny was stomped to death inside Lucky 8. All the restaurant workers and people inside claimed they saw nothing, when Denny was killed.
The police say, drug users and dealers are getting younger and younger. Ky, didn’t believe her brother, Denny, was a heroine user.
They have cremated him, and they don’t even know what happened to him, who he was with, who the witnesses were.
To make matters even more complicated her family declined an autopsy. The question is why would they do that?
Ky takes matters into her own hands to find witnesses into her brother’s death.
For fans of Celia Laskey ( So Happy For You )
Helen Monks Takhar ( Such a Good Mother )
Adele Parks ( One Last Secret )
You will need to read All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien.
About author Tracey Lien
Tracey Lien was born and raised in Southwestern Sydney, Australia, she earned her MFA at the University of Kansas and was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. All That’s Left Unsaid is her first novel.
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What a horrific crime. I do like the sound of this one.
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I know, I couldn’t put it down !
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