Growing Up in Australia

Publisher details

Author
Alice Pung
Publisher
Black Inc.
Genre
Non Fiction
Released
30 November, 2021
ISBN
9781760643188

Growing Up in Australia

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Synopsis

This special collection is the perfect addition to Black Inc.’s definitive ‘Growing Up’ series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways.

Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirt and Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning.

Contributors include Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch, Miranda Tapsell, Carly Findlay and many more.

With a foreword by Alice Pung, this anthology is a wonderful gift for adult and adolescent readers alike.
Alice Pung
About the author

Alice Pung

Alice Pung is the author of Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter and the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia. Alice’s work has appeared in the MonthlyGood Weekend, the AgeThe Best Australian Stories and Meanjin

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