TY - BOOK AU - Haddad,George TI - Populate and perish SN - 9781925143225 : U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Surry Hills, NSW PB - Xoum Publishing KW - Australians KW - Lebanon KW - Fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Father and child KW - Families KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - Australian N2 - Nick is treading water. No boyfriend. No career. Living in a granny flat in Fitzroy North. On a whim he decides to travel with his twin sister, Amira, to Lebanon in search of their estranged father. Their mother, who passed away a couple of years earlier, only ever referred to him as the kalb ? the dog. In Beirut Nick and Amira find family, a sense of belonging and surprising answers to questions they hadn't known to ask ER -