- Brothers and sisters, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, magical realism, Fiction, coming of age
"The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. 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.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and prestige.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- E. Lily Yu
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Erewhon, Erewhon Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781645660095
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