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Dealing with parental mental illness: THE SURPRISING POWER OF A GOOD DUMPLING

#LoveOzYA / #OwnVoices / Australian / australian women writers / bipolar / Diverse Voices / mental health / parental mental health / psychosis / schizophrenia / siblings / sydney / Young Adult January 20, 2020 September 4, 2020

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling was one of my favourite books of 2019. It’s a Young Adult contemporary about Anna Chiu, a Chinese-Australian girl growing up in Ashfield, Sydney. She’s in Year 11 at school and trying to cope with average marks, her snarky scholarship-winning sister, Lily, and …

Sibling stories

jaclyn moriarty / liane moriarty / sibling love / sibling rivalry / siblings October 10, 2018 April 28, 2019

I saw on Twitter that Jaclyn Moriarty, the highly successful author of A Corner of White and The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (among others), was teasing her sister Liane, who is also an author. https://twitter.com/jaclynmoriarty/status/1040498583303118850 I laughed out loud at the fine balance between “hell no she’s …