When journalist Jason Om turned his skills towards his own family story he began to understand the real story of his perfectionist Buddhist Cambodian father and his Catholic Eurasian mother, who was stricken with an inexplicable sadness

Jason is a journalist with ABC TV.

A few years ago he turned his journalistic skills to his own family story.

Jason wanted to find out what had happened to his mother in Malaysia, and whether that could explain the melancholy she struggled with as he was growing up.

His questioning and searching for the truth also saw his father change in a way Jason never believed possible.

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All Mixed Up is published by HarperCollins

Jason Om will be a guest at the 2022 Sydney Writers Festival

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