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Amid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural NSW to make a new life. Aliyah manages to secure a run-down property and hires a farmhand, Shep, an extremely private Palestinian man and the region's imam.
During a storm, she drives past the town's river and happens upon a childhood friend, Hana, who has been living a life of desperation. Aliyah takes her in and tries to navigate the indefinable relationships between both Hana and her farmhand. Tensions rise as Aliyah's devotion to Hana is strained by her growing bond with Shep.
Finally, all are thrown together for a reckoning alongside Hana's brother Hashim, and Aliyah's confidante, Billie - a local Kamilaroi midwife she met working at the hospital - while bushfires rage around them.
Jumaana Abdu was a Wheeler Centre Fellow and a finalist in the 2022 Ray Koppe/ASA Young Writers Award. Jumaana has been mentored by Hannah Kent who says of Translations ' I loved its consideration of language, its interrogation of selfhood, and the beautifully complex central character, Aliyah.' Her work has been published in Kill Your Darlings and the Sydney Morning Herald and, by day, she is a junior doctor at Liverpool Hospital. She's also working on another novel idea as well as a possible collection of short stories
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