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Can women fit within family, honour their home, but still forge their own lives? Join two of the most exciting new voices in Australian literature as they explore belonging, separation and self. Natasha Rai, in An Onslaught of Light, beautifully illustrates the pull a young woman feels back to her Indian family, while determined to discover her own queer identity. In international hit When Sleeping Women Wake, by Canberra's own Emma Pei Yin, physical separation in war-torn Hong Kong cannot break the lifelong spiritual connection between three women. In conversation with journalist and writer Aarti Betigeri, join Natasha and Emma they discuss both the strength families give us, and the constraints they can impose on our lives.