![]() ![]() This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award-winning author, traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, hope to home. For Firuzeh, her fantasy worlds provide some relief, but as her family and home splinter, she must surface from these imaginings and find a new way. Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends, indifferent to the family's fate. ![]() ![]() When they arrive in Australia, a seemingly stable shore gives way to treacherous currents. 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 their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. She received the Washington State Book Award for Fiction in 2022, the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017, and the Astounding. Tran, for the Seattle Opera's 2021 Jane Lang Creation Lab. The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves (2021) and Jewel Box (forthcoming 2023) and the librettist of Stars Between, with composer Steven K. ![]()
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