This is an important, heartbreaking book with frequent, unexpected humour, that everyone, whether teenager or adult, should read."- The Guardian Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Winner of the ABIA Book of the year for Older ReadersĬBCA Honour Book 2017 - Older Readers Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award
But not until each has been braver than ever before and made choices that could change everything. Subhi and Jimmie might both find comfort - and maybe even freedom - as their tales unfold. Unable to read it herself, Jimmie asks Subhi to unravel her family's love songs and tragedies that are penned there. Subhi sees a scruffy girl on the other side of the wire mesh, a girl named Jimmie, who appears with a notebook written by the mother she lost. Until one night, it seems to do just that. As Subhi grows, his imagination threatens to burst beyond the limits of the fences that contain him. But every night, the faraway whales sing to him, the birds tell him their stories, and the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts. He was born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, and the center is the only world he knows. About the Book "Subhi's contained world as a refugee in an Australian permanent detention center rapidly expands when Jimmie arrives on the other side of the fence and asks him to read her late mother's stories to her"-īook Synopsis "Indispensable." - Booklist (starred review) Subhi is a refugee.
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