Unbreakable Threads. The True Story Of An Australian Mother, A Refugee Boy And What It Really Means To Be A Family

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 324 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds.Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to wear thin in this place. He needs surgery for a chronic shoulder injury sustained when he was hit by a car in Kabul. Like the others in detention with him, he faces an uncertain fate, and years in limbo. Most of the people in the centre have already had their spirits broken.When psychiatrist and mother of three Emma Adams travels to Darwin as an observer of conditions for mothers and babies in the immigration detention centres there, she expects the trip to be confronting. What she doesnt expect is to return to Canberra consumed by the idea that she must help a sixteen-year-old unaccompanied Hazara boy from Afghanistan - Abdul.The premise was simple: Wouldnt any teenage boy be better off staying with a family rather than locked behind a wire fence In this brutal and bureaucratic system, freedom was a hopeless dream. Emma and Abduls connection, and her fight to get him out and provide him with an Australian home, a family and a future, forms an important testimony in Australias appalling treatment of asylum seekers. Their story is a beacon of hope and humanity.

ISBN: 9781760633103