{"product_id":"9781925760200","title":"Things Nobody Knows But Me","description":"Author: Amra Pajali\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925760200\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Transit Lounge\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she is four yearsold Amra Pajali realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving butsometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. She isfrequently sent to hospital and Amra and her brother are passed around tofamily friends and foster homes, and for a time live with their grandparents inBosnia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt sixteen Amra ends upin the school counsellor's office for wagging school. She finally learns thename for the malady that has dogged her mother and affected her own life: bipolardisorder. Amra becomes her mother's confidante and learns the extraordinarystory of her life: when she was fifteen years old Fatima visited family friendsonly to find herself in an arranged marriage. At sixteen she was a migrant, amother, and mental patient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurprisingly funny, \u003ci\u003eThings Nobody Knows But Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a tenderportrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderfulsense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St Albans in suburbanAustralia and Bosanska Gradika in Bosnia. Ultimately it is the heartrending story of a mother and daughter bond fracturedand forged by illness and experience. Fatima emerges as a remarkable butwounded woman who learns that her daughter really loves her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867089588382,"sku":"ADS-9781925760200","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925760200.jpg?v=1779429627","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925760200","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}