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Being black 'n chicken, & chips / Matt Okine.

Being black 'n chicken, & chips / Matt Okine.
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YF OKIN
 Young Adult Fiction   Childrens . Available .  
F OKIN
 Adult Fiction   Adult Lending . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 777451
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ISBN 9780733641688 (paperback)
9780734420671 (paperback)
Classification YF OKIN
Personal Name Okine, Matt
Title Being black 'n chicken, & chips / Matt Okine.
Variant Title Being black and chicken, and chips
Production & Copyright Details Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019.
©2019.
Physical Description 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type text
still image
Note A novel -- On cover.
Based on Matt Okine's award-winning stand-up show..--on backcover.
Summary Note Mike Amon is a regular teenager. All he wants is to fit in. He wants to sit at the cool bench. He wants to be a star athlete. He wants his first kiss. He also wants his mum to survive. When his mum is suddenly diagnosed with advanced breast and brain cancer, Mike knows it's a long shot, but if he manages to achieve his dreams, maybe it'll give his mum enough strength to beat an incurable disease. In the meantime, he has to live with his African dad whom he doesn't really know, a man who has strange foreign ways - and who Mike doesn't really feel comfortable sharing his teenage desires and deepest fears with. He doesn't even want to think about what it might mean if his mum never comes home from the hospital. Based on his award-winning stand-up show, and the loss of his own mother when he was 12, Matt Okine's coming-of-age novel, Being Black n Chicken and Chips, is a funny, heart-warming, and sometimes surreal look at how young people deal with grief, the loss of loved ones, and becoming an adult - all whilst desperately trying to fit in with the other kids.
Subject - Topical Term Adolescence -- Fiction
Teenage boys -- Australia -- Fiction
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Conduct of life -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Coming of age -- Australia -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Subject - Genre Psychological fiction
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