The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ...A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNERTranslated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUEReader love for A PERFECT DAY TO PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE OVEN***** ‘Reading this made me fly back to my own past’***** ‘I enjoyed its tenderness. Like the protagonist at the end, I felt warmth float into my eyes’***** ‘Interesting and philosophical. This cleverly considers the differences between fiction and reality’__________A genre-defying novel from a rare new international voice for fans of Lucia Berlin, Elena Ferrante and Han Kang as a writer gives up on fiction to explore the truth of her own youth.Faced with writer’s block, Tan’s attempts to write her first novel are faltering. And so she embarks instead on a memoir, sparking a lively dialogue with old friends as they search their memories to examine what each one recalls and why. Was it really a dinner-table game that revealed her parents were on the b
