ReadingRoom A Chinese New Zealander's novel searches for identity in a country where whakapapa is foundational   Half way through Emma Ling Sidnam's debut novel Backwaters , in a chapter called ‘Self-improvement', the narrator is talking to her grandfather about her fictional account of her great-great grandfather Kaineng's journal. Her grandfather can read Mandarin and is translating it slowly for her while she writes, and he says to her, "It's an odd experience, reading Ken's point of view through your words…I can see Ken in there.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/but-where-are-you-really-from

#newsroom