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This family, she said very slowly, is the Titantic. She looked up at me and added something about an iceberg.Journeys take on many forms ...Akira is sent by his family to Japan to learn English in Australia, a journey into a world very different from his own.Akira’s homestay hosts, the Moffat family, are not quite what he was expecting. But then, what does he know about Australians?In this tender and evocative tale, Kathryn Lomer takes us into two cultures, into lives connected by grief and uncertainty but with hope in common. It is the story of a journey into belonging, understanding and empowerment ... where the first steps are often the hardest.
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About the author
Kathryn Lomer grew up on a farm in North West Tasmania. She left school at fifteen and began the first of many and varied jobs in Tasmania and then overseas. She eventually went to university and became a teacher of English as a Second Language, which she taught for many years in Australia and Japan. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism, Media and Communications.Kathryn’s second young adult novel, What Now, Tilda B?, won the 2011 Margaret Scott Tasmanian Book Prize and was shortlisted in the 2011 Children’s Peace Literature Awards. Kathryn has also published three collections of poetry: the first, Extraction of Arrows, won the 2004 Anne Elder Award and the second, Two Kinds of Silence, won the 2008 NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize. Her most recent collection, Night Writing, was published in 2014.Kathryn’s other books include a novel, The God in the Ink, and a collection of short fiction, Camera Obscura.
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