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Eva and Marta faced a new challenge: crossing war-torn Europe to be reunited with their family

places and events that shaped him: from playing backyard cricket in 1980s Warragul to Community Cup with Paul Kelly in the 2000s

And I count for so much more than you

and left us with a banal

Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung loss Eva and Marta faced aThis story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head first into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler an outworker, that is. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical