Her friend Henry excels at maths but has a lot of trouble with English (both the language and the subject) and Wen is trying to help him improve in both for the entrance exam he desperately wants to sit. Wen isn’t allowed to socialist outside of school at all and her free time is taken up with homework, extra lessons and practice: music, Chinese calligraphy, maths (which she struggles with a lot). They are to make no stops on the way and her father rings every day at 4pm to make sure. He runs the household with an iron fist, imposing a lot of rules and regulations – even though she’s a teenager, Wen’s mother still walks her to and from school every day.
Her father was a doctor in China but hasn’t passed the surgeon’s exam in Australia and so he works as a manager in a Chinese restaurant and the bitterness about this, is extreme. Wen is a teenage girl living in Australia, born to migrant parents. This was a short but incredibly powerful read. Tiger Daughter is a novel that will grab hold of you and not let go. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen’s resilience and resourcefulness to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum and dad are also struggling immigrants - bothdream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selectivehigh school far from home. Wen Zhou is the only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be notso lucky. That my life won’t even start, and that I’ll be stuck like this forever. Blurb : What I feel most days is that nothing is ever going to change.
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