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The Coconut Children
Sydney
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Sydney Story Factory
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2017
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2017
single work
novel
'Sonny and Vince have always known each other. It took two years of juvie, a crazy mother (her), a violent father (him) and a porn stash for them to meet again.
'Sonny is in her last year of school and with protective parents she is forced to watch the world from her bedroom window. She has a habit of falling hopelessly in love with just about anyone. Vince is handsome, brash, a leader in the gangs, who became a legend after he was taken away by juvenile justice two years ago. Now, Vince is back. One problem – they have not been friends since they were children. Growing up in the vertigo of 1990's Cabramatta, of households which harbour histories and parents who are difficult to love, they stumble upon each other once more.
'While sharing the ugly and scary details of Western Sydney in this time, Vivian Pham also illuminates the beauty, hope, possibility, kindness and love that can spring from small gestures and strong friendships.' (Publication summary)
Works about this Work
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Life beyond Trauma
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23 May 2020; (p. 17)
— Review of The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; The Lotus Eaters : A Memoir 2020 single work autobiography ; Fourteen 2020 single work autobiography'As a young journalist, I wrote a lot about trauma. The federal Sex Discrimination Act was less than a decade old when I first joined a newsroom in the early 1990s and its passage helped broaden the public discussion of intimate crimes such as sexual assault and domestic violence, previously considered verboten in polite society.' (Introduction)
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March in Fiction
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of Damascus 2019 single work novel ; The Breeding Season 2019 single work novel ; The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; Cherry Beach 2020 single work novel
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March in Fiction
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of Damascus 2019 single work novel ; The Breeding Season 2019 single work novel ; The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; Cherry Beach 2020 single work novel -
Life beyond Trauma
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23 May 2020; (p. 17)
— Review of The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; The Lotus Eaters : A Memoir 2020 single work autobiography ; Fourteen 2020 single work autobiography'As a young journalist, I wrote a lot about trauma. The federal Sex Discrimination Act was less than a decade old when I first joined a newsroom in the early 1990s and its passage helped broaden the public discussion of intimate crimes such as sexual assault and domestic violence, previously considered verboten in polite society.' (Introduction)
