No Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging
By Zoya Patel
ISBN: 978 0 7336 4006 3
Reviewed by TAMARA LAZAROFF
Zoya Patel’s No Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging is a collection of twelve memoir essays that explore the experience of growing up as a migrant and person of colour in Australia – in particular, negotiating the tangle of hyphens which Patel inhabits as a female Indian-Fijian-Australian. In the work, then, Patel examines identity, race and gender, from a personal standpoint.