![]() ![]() ![]() The stories provide temporary relief and show a resilience that comes from deep within the storyteller. On their journey to Australia, their family faces many hardships and dangers. 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.įiruzeh and Nour grow up with the rich stories told by their parents. Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends, indifferent to the family’s fate. When they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a 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 fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. 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, home to home.įiruzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. ![]() ![]() The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. ![]()
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