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9781761342394 (paperback)
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Others were emeralds / Lang Leav.
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[Southbank, VIC] : Viking, 2023.
©2023
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274 pages ; 24 cm
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The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late '90s and despite their parents' harrowing past, Ai and her tightknit group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable horrors suffered by their parents. But that carefree innocence is shattered in their last year of school when Ai and her friends encounter a pair of racist men whose cruel acts of intimidation spiral into senseless violence. Grappling with the magnitude of her grief at such a young age, Ai leaves Whitlam for college before her trauma has a chance to fully resolve. In her second year of college Ai suffers a mental health crisis, driving her back home to Whitlam, a place she swore never to return. There, she reconnects with those she left behind and together they are compelled to look back on the tragedy that shaped their adolescence and examine the role they may have unwittingly played.
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Asians -- Australia -- Fiction
Children of immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction
Psychic trauma -- Fiction
Racism -- Australia -- Fiction
Women college students -- Fiction
Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
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