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Between / Wendy Glassby.

Between / Wendy Glassby.
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AF GLAS
 Adult Fiction   Adult Lending . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700006733
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ISBN 9780648834106 :
Classification F GLAS
Personal Name Glassby, Wendy, 1945-
Title Between / Wendy Glassby.
Edition First.
Production & Copyright Details Shelley, Western Australia : Lily Ellen Publishing, 2021.
©2021.
Physical Description xii, 271 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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Summary Note Set in Australia and Papua New Guinea, 'Between' concerns itself with the importance of identity, cultural heritage and cultural diversity in respect of the Chinese/Mixed Race community of Rabaul who as 'non-indigenous' were impacted by PNG Independence. Maria Seeto is caught between. A return to Papua New Guinea (PNG) after thirty-five years in Australia seemed impossible yet now she's dying there. Too late she realises home is with her family in Australia. When PNG begins self-rule in 1975, Maria Seeto's husband insists it will be safer for his family to migrate to Brisbane, Australia. For the next thirty-five years, Maria suppresses her pain over losing her homeland. The loss is centred on the town of Rabaul, where her culturally-diverse ancestors have lived for almost a century as a minority sandwiched between New Guineans and the colonisers, in which they lived through volcanic eruptions and two world wars, including Japanese military occupation. For Maria, leaving Rabaul also robs her of hope of reuniting with her estranged brother Henry and of the rare but heart-lifting glimpses from afar of her one-true-love, Stephen. In 2010, against all odds, she's back in PNG with her brother but she's dying. Her death brings consequences. Maria is the only surviving family member who can narrate the family's cultural history in Rabaul but, to protect secrets about her biological relationships to her so-called sons, she has failed to do so. Her death not only means knowledge of the Chinese-Mixed Race family's cultural heritage will be lost but also she will no longer be able to hide secrets she has spent a lifetime hiding. Can the family survive these revelations or will it be strengthened by reuniting those in Papua New Guinea with those in Australia? The question may be: what is it that binds a family together?
Subject - Topical Term Families -- Papua New Guinea -- Fiction
Australian fiction -- 21st century
Subject - Geographic Name Papua New Guinea -- Fiction
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