Clare Atkins
Autor von Nona and Me
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Clare Atkins is an Australian writer, scriptwriter, script editor and producer. She has a teaching degree and runs workshops about scriptwriting and creative writing in general. She has worked as a scriptwriter for many successful television series including All Saints, Home and Away, Winners and mehr anzeigen Losers and Wonderland. Nona and Me is her first book. She was awarded an Honour Book at the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards in the Older Reader Category with her title Nona and Me. That same title was awarded the Chief Minister's Book of the Year, from The Territory Read Awards 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Trigger warnings: Physical assault and injury, blood depiction, deportation, refugee experiences, pregnancy, childbirth, sexist slur, self-harm and attempted suicide mentioned, imprisonment, divorce
Score: Six points out of ten.
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I saw Between Us circling in my recommendations once but not before I added it to my TBR. I saw one library that had it, but unfortunately, someone transferred it and I never got around to transferring it back. At least another library I went to had this one so I seized the opportunity to get it by picking it up. However, when I read and finished Between Us, it was okay and not without flaws.
It starts with the first two characters I see, Anahita and Jono both living their separate lives. Anahita is an Iranian refugee while Jono is a half Vietnamese half Australian person. Initially, the two don't interact until a few pages in, but it turns out for the worse as the latter grew suspicious of the former. Jono questioned whether Ana is a real refugee or a 'queue jumper.' It's not clear what the second term means. Between Us has many imperfections that the author could address to make a better reading experience. The experimental nature of combining prose and poetry didn't help me delight myself in reading Between Us as the poetry wasn't compelling enough and felt like what happened when someone pressed the Enter key many times. However, the prose was passable. Between Us has only one chapter spanning the entire text broken into multiple POVs but they were almost indistinguishable other than their names. The characters were also hard to connect or relate with. Between Us finishes on a low note when the Australian Government deported Anahita. I'm not sure if a half Vietnamese half Australian author can write about an Iranian person. It feels inauthentic, further underwhelming me.… (mehr)