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The Coconut Children, by Vivian Pham
Set in Sydney's southwest suburbs in the 1990s, this is a raw, beautiful and heartbreaking story of love and coming-of-age. At the backbone of this gently uncurling love story is the pervasive and haunting narrative of the migrant experience. We are reminded of the way in which trauma can be passed along from one generation to the next - so that the children of migrants often feel burdened with their parent's pain, even before they fully understand it themselves. The trauma e