A review by margaretefg
On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu

4.0

Read this right after What Strange Paradise, while people were streaming out of Ukraine. This book was heart-rending. Firuzeh and her family flee Kabul for Australia, and despite cheating, lying smugglers, near shipwreck, a purgatory of wait on Nauru and countless family squabbles, they eventually arrive safely and settle in Australia. But, of course, that's not the end of their struggles as refugees. And Firuzeh has to figure out how to grow and who she is in all these different settings.