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Family Secrets

Blood is thicker than ink in these revealing family memoirs

Candice Chung (photo credit Wendy Huynh)
Peter Godwin (photo credit Mike Yule)
Michael Visontay
Georgina Godwin
Thursday 22 May 2025
4-5pm
Event Code: 43
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Every family has a secret but not every family has a memoirist to reveal it to the world.

Writer and former restaurant reviewer Candice Chung’s memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You: A memoir of saying the unsayable with food is a tender account of reconnecting with her family and breaking down the barriers of cultural taboos. Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars is award-winning writer Peter Godwin’s exploration of his changing relationship with his mother, his sister and his ex-wife and the winding histories that got them where they are now. Journalist Michael Visontay in Noble Fragments unravels a rare-book mystery linked by a legal document to his family’s history.

Join Candice, Peter and Michael in conversation with Georgina Godwin, as they reveal the tender underbellies of their family memoirs.
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