The Weight of the Unspoken
By Carolyn Hong
May 2019 FEATURE
Everything is okay until it is not. People greet each other pleasantly until they turn to killing the other. Just like that, everything can change.It is the suddenness of it all – the thought that a single spark can set raging fire to hidden racial tensions – that fills me with a chill. The chill lingers all the way through as I devour Hanna Alkaf ’s best-selling debut novel The Weight of Our Sky.The story is set in one of...
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Carolyn Hong
lives in Ba Kelalan sometimes, in KL sometimes. A former journalist who once chased the big stories for a regional newspaper, she now hunts for the small stories in Malaysia’s smallest places.
