Laurinda takes the stage: ‘Private school culture needs to change – the insularity, the entitlement’ - The Guardian

8/1/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Author Alice Pung and the two minds behind a new adaptation reflect on the beloved story of a girl navigating high school – Mean Girls meets Fight Club, with an Asian-Australian twist
Alice Pungs young adult novel Laurinda opens with a simple epigraph: Life is nothing but high school. This quote, from the US writer Kurt Vonnegut, distils a confronting truth: the things that happen… [+5226 chars]
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