Marina Mahathir in conversation with Melisa Idris

What is it like to be the daughter of Malaysia’s most iconic leader? Marina Mahathir speaks to Melisa Idris about her newly published memoir, ‘The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr. Mahathir’s Daughter’. She reflects on the challenges of truth-telling in a memoir — digging past our own vanities and the stories we tell ourselves, the discomfort of writing in vulnerability, the difficulty of writing about family and loved ones, and on her hopes for the future of this country.