Muddy People

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Author
Sara El Sayed
Publisher
Black Inc.
Genre
Non Fiction
Released
03 August, 2021
ISBN
9781760642464

Muddy People

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Synopsis

Soos is coming of age in a household with a lot of rules. No bikinis, despite the Queensland heat. No boys, unless he’s Muslim. And no life insurance, not even when her father gets cancer. Soos is trying to balance her parents’ strict decrees with having friendships, crushes and the freedom to develop her own values. With each rule Soos comes up against, she is forced to choose between doing what her parents say is right and following her instincts. When her family falls apart, she comes to see her parents as flawed, their morals based on a muddy logic. But she will also learn that they are her strongest defenders.

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Hilarious and Heartwarming: Read an Extract from Muddy People Sara El Sayed

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Hilarious and Heartwarming: Read an Extract from Muddy People Sara El Sayed

    An Illuminating Memoir: Read our Review of Muddy People by Sara El Sayed

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      About the author

      Sara El Sayed

      Sara El Sayed was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She has a Master of Fine Arts and works at Queensland University of Technology. Her work features in the anthologies Growing Up African in Australia and Arab, Australian, Other, among other places. She is a recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2020 Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award. Muddy People is her first book.

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