![]() ![]() The horrific events portrayed are made endurable by the author’s skillful use of characterization and poetic imagery. The family travels endless days filled with dread and numbing cultural indifference from others. The fictional journey juxtaposes the opposing poles of human emotion: doubt and faith, fear and comfort, hope and despair. ![]() There, they become quarantined in a refugee tent camp, left to wait with faint hope that they might be granted permission to settle in nearby Australia. Lily Yu begins her poetic debut novel, On Fragile Waves, tracking a family’s migration from Afghanistan to Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, a small island country northeast of Australia. This is a sign: It’s time for the family - mother, father, sister, and brother - to flee alongside others seeking sanctuary in foreign lands. When the shooting stops, her father, her Atay, tentatively turns on the radio, and over its fragile soundwaves, he hears music. When Firuzeh is 6, fire falls from the sky over Kabul, and conversations among individuals must be confined to halting phrases between mortars. ![]()
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