Publisher's synopsis
Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won’t make her stand out, a place where she might feel she belongs.
But when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey: a road trip across outback Australia in the care of her mother’s grieving boyfriend, Pat. As they travel through remote towns further and further from the water that Dylan longs for, she and Pat form an unlikely bond. One that will be broken when he leaves her with the family she has never known.
Metal Fish, Falling Snow is a warm, funny and highly original portrait of a young girl’s search for identity and her struggle to deal with grief. Through families lost and found, this own-voices story celebrates the resilience of the human heart and our need to know who we truly are.
- Winner, Young Adult, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2021
- Winner, Writing for Young Adults, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2021
- Winner, Griffith University Young Adult Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards, 2021
- Commended, Book of the Year for Older Readers, Children’s Book Council of Australia, 2021
- Shortlisted, Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult’s Literature, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2021
- Shortlisted, Multicultural NSW Award, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2021
- Shortlisted, Young Adult Fiction, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2022
- Shortlisted, Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2021
- Shortlisted, Readings Young Adult Book Prize, 2021
- Longlisted, Stella Prize, 2021
- Longlisted, ALS Gold Medal, 2021
