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The remarkable true story of an Australian mother's fight to free an unaccompanied Hazara boy from detention, and include him in her family. 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 doesn't 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: Wouldn't 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 Abdul's connection,

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Author

Emma Adams

Publisher

Allen & Unwin

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760633103

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Social Science, Biography