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'IN the comic-tragic story ‘Lucky Ticket’, the narrator, a genial disabled old man, sells lottery tickets on a street corner in bustling Saigon. In ‘Mekong Love’, two young people in a restrictive society 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 Vietnam to earn money in the UAE in order to be able to marry his fiancée. ‘White Washed’ depicts a strained friendship between two students in Melbourne, the Vietnamese narrator and a white girl.
'What does it mean to be Asian? What does it mean to be white? And what makes up identity? In Lucky Ticket, Joey Bui introduces a diverse range of characters, all with distinctive voices, and makes us think differently about mixed-race relationships, difficulties between family generations, war, dislocation and identity.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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[Review] Lucky Ticket
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 54)
— Review of Lucky Ticket 2019 selected work short story -
Reversal of Fortunes
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7 September 2019; (p. 20)
— Review of Lucky Ticket 2019 selected work short story'In Lucky Ticket, a collection of 12 stories, Vietnamese-Australian author Joey Bui acts as a ventriloquist for a number of voices: men and women across the age spectrum, with several tales based on interviews with Vietnamese refugees around the world.' (Introduction)
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Joey Bui
2019
single work
interview
— Appears in: Liminal , September 2019; An interview about Joey Bui's 'journey into the literary world and her creative process behind her debut collection of stories Lucky Ticket.' -
‘My Strange Australian Story Is Also a Great Australian Story’
Alan Vaarwerk
(interviewer),
2019
single work
interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2019; -
Joey Bui : Lucky Ticket
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 7-13 September 2019;
— Review of Lucky Ticket 2019 selected work short story'“She wrote weird stories with no endings,” one character observes of another in Joey Bui’s debut. In a way, this could be said of Bui’s writing, too – Lucky Ticket is a strange and spellbinding collection of short stories with question-mark conclusions, presenting glimpses into the ordinary and extraordinary lives of migrants. These stories often finish on an image, a thought or a reflection, rather than offering any closure – they are about lives in flux, ever changing and not so easily defined. Even when diving into matters of great emotion, Bui largely avoids sentimentality, writing with a pragmatism that will feel familiar to anyone raised in a migrant family.' (Introduction)
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Joey Bui : Lucky Ticket
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 7-13 September 2019;
— Review of Lucky Ticket 2019 selected work short story'“She wrote weird stories with no endings,” one character observes of another in Joey Bui’s debut. In a way, this could be said of Bui’s writing, too – Lucky Ticket is a strange and spellbinding collection of short stories with question-mark conclusions, presenting glimpses into the ordinary and extraordinary lives of migrants. These stories often finish on an image, a thought or a reflection, rather than offering any closure – they are about lives in flux, ever changing and not so easily defined. Even when diving into matters of great emotion, Bui largely avoids sentimentality, writing with a pragmatism that will feel familiar to anyone raised in a migrant family.' (Introduction)
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Reversal of Fortunes
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7 September 2019; (p. 20)
— Review of Lucky Ticket 2019 selected work short story'In Lucky Ticket, a collection of 12 stories, Vietnamese-Australian author Joey Bui acts as a ventriloquist for a number of voices: men and women across the age spectrum, with several tales based on interviews with Vietnamese refugees around the world.' (Introduction)
-
[Review] Lucky Ticket
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 54)
— Review of Lucky Ticket 2019 selected work short story -
‘My Strange Australian Story Is Also a Great Australian Story’
Alan Vaarwerk
(interviewer),
2019
single work
interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2019; -
Joey Bui
2019
single work
interview
— Appears in: Liminal , September 2019; An interview about Joey Bui's 'journey into the literary world and her creative process behind her debut collection of stories Lucky Ticket.'
Awards
- 2020 shortlisted Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
- 2020 shortlisted Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
- 2020 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award
- 2020 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
- 2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Glenda Adams Award for New Writing