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Winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction Winner of the MUD Literary Prize Shortlisted for the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Literary Fiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for New Writers ABIA Awards Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

Tracey Liens first novel is a deeply moving tale of rage regret and resilience A brilliant debut The Times
An unforgettable debut utterly compelling from start to finish Original Heartbreaking Gripping Liane Moriarty
A gripping and unflinching narrative that is as heartwrenching as it is unputdownable Karin Slaughter

They claim they saw nothing She knows theyre lying

Just let him go

Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends That night Denny optimistic guileless Denny is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta a refugee enclave facing violent crime and an indifferent police force
Returning home for the funeral Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brothers case Even though several people were present at Dennys murder each bystander claims to have seen nothing and they are all staying silent
Determined to uncover the truth Ky tracks down and questions the witnesses herself But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night The silence has always been there threaded through the generations and Ky begins to expose the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died As she peels back the layers of the place that shaped her she must confront more than the reasons her brother is dead And once those truths have finally been spoken how can any of them move on
A shocking deeply moving and truly special debut A richly crafted mystery a story that is both impossible to put down and impossible to forgetChris Whitaker We Begin at the End
Poignant and impeccable storytelling Oprah Daily