Clementine

• Newest addition to punch line, Peach Mango Punch, and recently launched Fruit Punch, will both be available to US retailers starting in February.
• GURU’s entire punch lineup, consisting of Tropical Punch, Fruit Punch and Peach Mango Punch, will also be showcased to US retailers at TheFitExpo, KeHE, UNFI, and Expo West trade shows.
• GURU’s Peach Mango Punch and Fruit Punch are currently available at GURU’s distributors and will be distributed to retailers and club channel wholesalers across the US starting in February 2024.
• GURU is set to dazzle US retailers with its entire punch lineup comprised of Peach Mango Punch, Fruit Punch and Tropical Punch at TheFitExpo (January), KeHE (February), UNFI (February), and Expo West (March) trade shows.

• During prior seasons, Save Foods’ solutions were applied to approximately 200,000 tons of fruit packed by Sun Pacific.
• Sun Pacific , a leading US-based grower, packer, and marketer, has been a cornerstone brand in the industry for decades.
• Dan Sztybel, CEO of Save Foods Ltd., the majority-owned operating subsidiary of Save Foods, commented: “We are very proud that Sun Pacific continues to show confidence in Save Foods’ solutions, as evidenced by their third consecutive commercial season.
• Our solution was also the catalyst for a ramp up in sales to a large U.S retailer.

• With 75 per cent of students finding it challenging to afford post-secondary education, the TELUS Student Bursary will support hundreds of students each year who are committed to making a difference in their communities
  TORONTO, Oct. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Wednesday, October 11, TELUS Friendly Future Foundation will officially announce the launch of Canada’s largest bursary fund, the TELUS Student Bursary , supporting students facing financial barriers impacting their ability to enroll or continue their education.
• Created through a $25 million endowment gift from TELUS, along with an additional $25 million commitment in fundraising from TELUS Friendly Future Foundation, TELUS Student Bursaries are awarded annually to youth between the ages of 17 and 29 who are accepted into, or attending, any undergraduate degree or diploma program at any Canadian college, university or polytechnic institute, enabling youth across the country to access higher education.
• Funding announcement supporting students facing financial barriers impacting their ability to enroll or continue their post-secondary education.
• Pursuing post-secondary education can have significant financial barriers for capable students across Canada, with nearly 1-in-3 students saying they have considered withdrawing before they complete their education due to costs.

• Mercifully, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, But The Girl, is effervescent on the page.
• As the narrator says,
  I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English: it hurt me, and it gave me acute pleasure.
• I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English: it hurt me, and it gave me acute pleasure.

Telling it slant

• This self-awareness of movement against expectations infuses the book’s unapologetic over-sharing through the chatty, first-person narration with a sense of doubt and uncertainty.
• It’s a refreshing commitment to self-critique and a refusal of foreclosure.
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Homage to Sylvia Plath

• This theme of tribute, disappointment, critique and conversation – of holding Plath close – continues as verse and refrain throughout the novel.
• For instance, Clementine, a fellow artist in residence in Scotland, attempts to paint a portrait of the narrator over a portrait of Plath.
• This probing of Plath’s work continues, as the narrator retrospectively charts her growth towards a less hagiographic and more open-eyed apprehension of Plath.
• Read more:
  Sylvia Plath's famous collection Ariel is far darker than she envisaged

Cultural cringe and unstable ‘home’

• There are the expected responses of shame and cultural cringe at Australia’s provincialism.
• But they are complicated by the unstable category of “home”, where “home” is not just Australia, but also Malaysia.
• Sometimes I wished my parents had immigrated somewhere else; being a child of immigrants always made your birth country feel so random and unnecessary.
• This particular positioning of the self also plays out in the way the female Asian body is perceived and possessed.
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A love letter

• This novel is also ultimately a love letter, especially to the narrator’s formidable Ah Ma, a former maid, now “a matriarch demanding the best of the best for her and for her alone”.
• It is also a love letter to the narrator’s parents, Ma and Ikanyu – an exploration of all that is inherited, all that is suffered and all that is owed.
• “To hit you is to love you,” the narrator is told after being smacked by her father when she calls her mother “a grouch”.