Book Launch | An Evening with Candice Chung: Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You

Join us for a a very special night as we launch the new memoir from Candice Chung, Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You. Candice will be in conversation with food journalist, Lee Tran Lam.

6:30pm arrivals for 7pm start

Tickets: $10 per person (plus booking fee and GST), redeemable on the night towards any book purchase.

Pick up your $10 coupon when you check in at the front door. Please note: Humanitix booking fee and GST is not part of your coupon value.


ABOUT THE BOOK:
I have felt the pull of this extravagant wanting elsewhere... A meal is a shape. It is a container into which we pour our craving

At 35, when a 13-year relationship ends, food journalist Candice Chung finds herself losing not only her first love, but also her most reliable restaurant review partner. Then her retired Cantonese parents offer to be her new plus-ones, and she faces a dilemma: is it better to eat together in polite silence, or to try saying the unsayable—to broach how, for the past decade, they managed to drift so profoundly apart?

Soon, a geographer enters her life, and the course of their relationship forces Chung to address what's still left unsaid. To do so, she must find a new vocabulary - a way to unscramble what her family has been trying to express all along. Not through words, but with food.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Candice Chung is a writer, editor and a former restaurant reviewer for The Sun-Herald. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Food, The Australian Gourmet Traveller, SBS Food, Griffith Review and more. She is a founding member of Diversity in Food Media Australia, which supports and promotes underrepresented voices in food media.