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Also by Michelle de Kretser:

Theory & Practice, February 2025
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Questions Of Travel, May 2013
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Questions Of Travel
Michelle de Kretser

Little Brown & Company
May 2013
On Sale: May 14, 2013
ISBN: 0316219223
EAN: 9780316219228
Kindle: B008TUAIGE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendes is on the other side of the world--his humble father dead, his mother struggling, determined to succeed in computer science. Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing new novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, returning to Sydney to work for a travel guide. There she meets Ravi, a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these disparate characters truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be--home or away.

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