![]() ![]() The road there is winding, hot and dusty beer salesman Pat drops in on pubs along the way to check on his accounts, and to play the pokies too. Dylan and Pat drive towards the ocean and the boat that Dylan is convinced will take her to Paris, in the country where her mother was born. Her mother has passed away, and now Dylan has to leave her small rural home town of Beyen, in the company of her mother’s boyfriend, Pat. ![]() ‘Breathtaking…one of the most moving books I’ve read in ages.’ Vikki Wakefield Through families lost and found, this own-voices story celebrates the resilience of the human heart and our need to know who we truly are. Metal Fish, Falling Snow is a warm, funny and highly original portrait of a young girl’s search for identity and her struggle to deal with grief. One that will be broken when he leaves her with the family she has never known. ![]() As they travel through remote towns further and further from the water that Dylan longs for, she and Pat form an unlikely bond. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won’t make her stand out, a place where she might feel she belongs.īut when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey- a road trip across outback Australia in the care of her mother’s grieving boyfriend, Pat. Shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2021ĭylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. ![]()
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