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Things Nobody Knows But Me
Author: Amra Pajalic
Narrator: Amra Pajalic
Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 05/03/2023
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
When she is four years old Amra Pajali? realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving but sometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. She is frequently sent to hospital and Amra and her brother are passed around to family friends and foster homes, and for a time live with their grandparents in Bosnia.
At sixteen Amra ends up in the school counsellor’s office for wagging school. She finally learns the name for the malady that has dogged her mother and affected her own life: bipolar disorder. Amra becomes her mother’s confidante and learns the extraordinary story of her life: when she was fifteen years old Fatima visited family friends only to find herself in an arranged marriage. At sixteen she was a migrant, a mother, and mental patient.
Surprisingly funny, Things Nobody Knows But Me is a tender portrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderful sense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St Albans in suburban Australia and Bosanska Gradiska in Bosnia. Ultimately it is the heartrending story of a mother and daughter bond fractured and forged by illness and experience. Fatima emerges as a remarkable but wounded woman who learns that her daughter really loves her.
‘Brave, compassionate, searingly honest and funny, this is a memoir in a voice like no other. Amra Pajali?’s love letter to her mother is a book that grabs at your heart and doesn’t let go until the final page.’ ALICE PUNG
..told in a distinctive voice, sharp, direct, sometimes bruising. The Australian
Melbourne's Amra Pajalic opens her heart and soul in this memoir of life with a Mum battling mental illness. Herald Sun
.... there's humour and irony here, such as playful echoes of Jane Austen. The Age
...gritty, poignant and at-times humorous book... Weekly Times
Amid the chaos, Pajali? remains alert to beauty and humour. The Saturday Paper
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