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Author:

Yu, E. Lily. author.

Title:

On fragile waves / E. Lily Yu.

Publisher:

Erewhon Books,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

273 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Refugees--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Race discrimination--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

"Content notice: [This novel] contains references to violence, abuse, and racism."--T.p. verso.

Summary:

"The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they're found. When they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a stable shore gives way to treacherous currents."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

1645660095
9781645660095

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1229169358

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

VMPC334 -- West Union Community Library (West Union)