TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pham,Vivian
TI  - The coconut children
SN  - 0143793837 (pbk.)
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Docklands, Vic.
PB  - Vintage, part of the Penguin Random House
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - First loves
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Juvenile delinquency
KW  - Australia
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Families
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Friendship in children
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Australian Fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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." -- Back cover
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