NPR Books We Love 2021, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021,
Booklist Best of 2021 Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles, NYT
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021, Washington
Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021. The haunting
story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in
an unwelcoming world. 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. 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.
Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends,
indifferent to the family's fate. 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. Content notice:
On Fragile Waves contains references to violence, abuse, and
racism.
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