The coconut children
Pham, Vivian2020
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Growing up can feel like a death sentence. Life in a troubled neighbourhood demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everything changes with the return of Vince, a boy who became a legend after he was hauled away in handcuffs at fourteen. Sonny and Vince used to be childhood friends. But with all that happened in-between, childhood seems so long ago. It will take two years of juvie, an inebriated grandmother and a porn stash for them to meet again. The Coconut Children is an urgent, moving and wise debut from a young and gifted storyteller.
The coconut children / by Vivian Pham.
Docklands, Vic. : Vintage, part of the Penguin Random House, 2020.©2020.
x, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
9780143793830 (paperback)
English
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