Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a campus novel set off-campus and a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind.

“But the Girl is a vivid novel of consciousness with a delightful sense of play. Jessica Zhan Mei Yu writes with striking originality that combines the irreverent and the philosophical about the ambiguities and ambivalences of contemporary life. A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world.”

BRANDON TAYLOR, author of REAL LIFE

'A unique and meaningful novel: refreshingly unsentimental, written with a directness that is both self-effacing and wry. The voice sometimes recalls Lucia Berlin, JD Salinger or Lorrie Moore but it’s entirely her own'

SHARLENE TEO, author of PONTI

A fiercely intelligent re-examination of literature through the lens of colonisation, full of fire.

ALICE PUNG, author of 100 DAYS

Order from Penguin Random House Australia.

Order from Jonathan Cape in the UK.