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Wish for love, wish for happiness,\nwish to stand out as an artist,
\nwish to fit in at her new school…<\/p>\n
Wish for love, wish for happiness,
\nwish to stand out as an artist,
\nwish to fit in at her new school…<\/p>\n
V\u00e2n U\u031b\u01a1\u0301c worries about so many things – her mother’s deepening depression as the anniversary of her parents’ escape from Vietnam nears<\/a> and how to fit in correctly as a scholarship student at her Australian private high school.<\/p>\n And her wishes – becoming an artist instead of a doctor (her parents’ dream), being with handsome rower Billy (her craziest dream) – seem to be coming true after that creative writing class…<\/p>\n Read chapter one here<\/a>, courtesy of the publisher, then search for Cloudwish<\/em> at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n What’s your highest wish? Book info<\/strong>: Cloudwish \/ Fiona Wood. Poppy, 2016.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [podcast with author<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Dreams of being with handsome Billy are fruitless; dreams of making her living as an artist get V\u00e2n U\u031b\u01a1\u0301c through tough days. But the Vietnamese Australian teen may have a chance at both, if the guest creative writing teacher is right!<\/p>\n The transition from her Sydney immigrant neighborhood where she shares strong coffee with her lesbian-in-waiting best friend to the private school where she’s a scholarship student is jarring, as is Billy’s transformation from popular prankster to nice guy in their International Baccalaureate classes.<\/p>\n When a tiny bottle marked ‘wish’ just vanishes into her skin during a creative writing seminar, odd things begin to happen to V\u00e2n U\u031b\u01a1\u0301c – like Billy really paying attention to her – in a good way!<\/p>\n Will she be able to magically change her parents’ expectations for her future? Her name means ‘cloudwish’ – and maybe, just maybe, her dearest wishes and dreams could come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wish for love, wish for happiness, wish to stand out as an artist, wish to fit in at her new school… V\u00e2n U\u031b\u01a1\u0301c worries about so many things – her mother’s deepening depression as the anniversary of her parents’ escape from Vietnam nears and how to fit in correctly as a scholarship student at her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,124,289,104,22,7,4,11,5,16,18,40,44,43,187,39,27,49,184,31,12,15,9,21,35,3,149],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-art","tag-asian-australian","tag-australia","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nCan Mama’s depression be cured, years after that traumatic journey from Vietnam?
\nWhat would Jane Austen do in all these strange, changed situations?<\/p>\n