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Lucky Ticket - Joey Bui in conversation with Winnie Dunn

Sat, 07 Sept

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Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead

Join us to celebrate the launch of Joey Bui's extraordinary debut, Lucky Ticket. Joey will be in conversation with Winnie Dunn upstairs at Better Read Than Dead.

Lucky Ticket - Joey Bui in conversation with Winnie Dunn
Lucky Ticket - Joey Bui in conversation with Winnie Dunn

Time & Location

07 Sept 2019, 3:00 pm

Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia

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About The Event

Join us to celebrate the launch of Joey Bui's extraordinary debut collection of stories, Lucky Ticket. Joey will be in conversation with Winnie Dunn here at Better Read Than Dead.

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In Lucky Ticket, Joey Bui introduces a diverse range of characters, all with distinctive voices, and makes us think differently about identity, mixed-race relationships, difficulties between family generations, war and dislocation.

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A highly original collection of stories by a talented young writer. In the comic-tragic eponymous story, ‘Lucky Ticket’, the narrator, a genial, disabled old man, whose spirit is far from crushed, sells lottery tickets on a street corner in bustling Saigon. In ‘Mekong Love’, two young people in a restrictive society try to find a way to consummate their relationship—in an extraordinary tropical landscape.

In ‘Abu Dhabi Gently’, a story of dreams and disappointment, of camaraderie and disillusionment, a migrant worker leaves Zanzibar to earn money in…

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