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Future Girl

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From Shelf: Great Books Guide 2021: For readers aged 12 plus

Future Girl explores what it means to come of age as a Deaf teenager, against the backdrop of a near-future Melbourne on the brink of environmental catastrophe.

Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food. When she meets Marley, a CODA (child of Deaf adult), a door opens into a new world - where Deafness is something to celebrate rather than hide, and where resilience is created through growing your own food rather than it being delivered on a truck. As she dives into learning Auslan, sign language that is exquisitely beautiful and expressive, Piper finds herself falling hard for Marley. But Marley, who has grown up in the Deaf community yet is not Deaf, is struggling to find his place in the hearing world. How can they be together? Future Girl is the art journal of sixteen-year-old Piper, a visual extravaganza of text, paint, collage and drawings, woven into a deeply engaging coming-of-age story set in near-future Melbourne.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
384
Publisher:
Murdoch Books
ISBN:
9781911679004
Published Date:
4/3/2021
Dimensions:
234mm x 153mm
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)

RRP: £10.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781911679004


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