Almas Loyalty: 2 - Amra Pajalic Book

  • Author: Amra Pajalic
  • Publisher: Pishukin Press
  • Cover Type: Paperback
  • Pages: 273 pages
  • Language: English
  • Genre: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction
  • Genre Class: Books
  • Almas perfect family is fractured when her father finds out he has a long-lost daughter from his first marriage. When his overtures are rebuffed, its up to Alma to bring her new-found sister, Sabiha, into the family fold.Now Alma is caught between family loyalties: her feuding parents, the brother she grew up with and the sister she just met, the new friends she made who are conflicted in their loyalties between her and Sabiha. Can Alma maintain the role of the perfect daughter and navigate the competing loyalties in her life?Amra Pajali writes with such honesty every young adult will empathise with her While dealing with some ordinary stuff Pajalics observations are sincere and often hilarious. BENDIGO ADVERTISER

    P>About the Author: Amra Pajali is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture. Her short story collection The Cuckoos Song (Pishukin Press) features previously published and prize-winning stories. Her debut novel The Good Daughter, won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literatures Civic Choice Award, now re-released as Sabihas Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022) as the first book in the Sassy Saints Series. The second book is Almas Loyalty (Pishukin Press, 2022).Her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Childrens Book Council of the year awards. She works as a high school teacher and is completing her PhD at LaTrobe.Amra Pajali publishes her dark fiction using pen name A. P. Pajalic. She also publishes romance novels under the pen name Mae Archer. Her website is www.amrapajalic.com/

    (BK-9780645331059)

    SKU BK-9780645331059
    Barcode # 9780645331059
    Brand Pishukin Press
    Artist / Author Amra Pajalic
    Shipping Weight 0.3100kg
    Shipping Width 0.130m
    Shipping Height 0.020m
    Shipping Length 0.200m
    Type Paperback

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