Project Description
Joyful Strains
Making Australia Home
by Kent MacCarter & Ali Lemer (Eds.)
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia – stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians.
Contributors include: Alice Pung, Danny Katz, Mark Dapin and Diane Armstrong, with an introduction from Arnold Zable.
January 2013
RRP: $24.95
ISBN: 9780987308535
Paperback
198 x 128mm
For any media related queries please contact:
Grace Breen
Publicist
T: (03) 8695 9619
Email: grace.breen@affirmpress.com.au
About the Authors
Praise
‘From the affectionate to the bitter to the hilariously
funny to the probingly intelligent, this is a collection not to be missed.’
– JM Coetzee
‘The stories in this challenging collection show suffering and heroism, happiness and laughter, and above all hope and vindication of the visionary ideal of multiculturalism. I am, you are, we are Australian. Joyful strains indeed.’
– Mungo MacCallum
‘These are intelligent, personal and elegant accounts of what it means to leave, what it means to arrive and how it feels to stay. Joyful Strains is undoubtedly a place worth visiting.’
– Jon Bauer, Sydney Morning Herald &Saturday Age
‘Compulsory reading.‘
– Stephen Romei, The Australian
‘Joyful Strains not only offers an invaluable insight into Australian immigration, it’s also a great read: at once entertaining and harrowing.’
– Thuy On, Sun Herald &Sunday Age
‘An example of a good idea backed up by an excellent execution. This is intelligent, relevant, absorbing writing.’
– Bookseller+Publisher Magazine
‘The literary quality of the individual chapters is uniformly high.’
– – Geordie Williamson, Weekend Australian
‘An eye-opening, truthful collection of personal essays by writers we should be proud to call our own.’
– Readings
‘To read these intimate, immediate stories is to be wholly immersed in them, enraptured and intrigued…’
– The Big Issue