![]() The complexity of motherhood is a key aspect of One Hundred Days, which the author says comes from “having my own kids and being a daughter myself”.Ĭomplicated child-parent relationships, especially within particular cultures, are a ripe area for literary exploration. When we meet for coffee in Carlton, her six-month-old baby is strapped to her chest – Pung’s third child but first daughter. ![]() (“I got the advantages – she made all the great food, but I didn’t have to be trapped for a whole month at home,” Pung remembers.) ![]() Pung’s own mother wanted to impose the confinement tradition for the author’s first pregnancy, she says – but the baby was premature, so she had to go to hospital daily. The book is written from Karuna’s quietly furious perspective, addressed to the baby growing within her as she feels her own life vanishing before her. ![]() Yearning for an escape from her suburban isolation, the teenager loses herself in Walt Whitman’s poetry and copies of Reader’s Digest. ![]()
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