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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARDS FOR YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA’S AWARD FOR OLDER READERS
In her memoir Ask No Questions, Eva Collins charts her family’s journey from Poland to Australia during the Cold War. Her restrained tone reflects the threat her parents experienced of the Communist regime and of ubiquitous anti-Semitism. Simply written and deeply moving she captures loss and gain, grief and celebration with great poignancy. With a third of Australians born overseas and half of the population with one migrant parent, Ask No Questions forms a crucial part of our national experience. Its accessible poetry is particularly suited to young adult readers.
REVIEWS
“In her memoir, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins handles the conjunction between poetry and memoir well, playing with notions of uncertainty and shift, and allowing the nuances of both forms to inform the other…The trauma and sadness of the refugee experience is rarely covered through the viewpoint of a child, and Eva teases out that perspective with poetic delicacy, tracing the way in which this perception changes through time.” MAGDALENA BALL, Compulsive Reader
