How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life
An unreliable ethnic memoir
$28.00
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
If you’ve ever had someone try to arrange a marriage for you… If you have so many cousins you can’t remember all their names… If your parents only show love through food and unsolicited advice… If your family still thinks your ‘roommate’ is ‘just a great friend’… Then this book is for you.
And if you’ve never experienced any of this? Well, aren’t you just a little curious?
Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (es…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923046573 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923046578 |
| Author: | Daniel Nour |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 208mm x 151mm |
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Critics Review
‘Daniel Nour’s book is everything I want in a coming-of-age story: laugh-out-loud, poignantly heartfelt and charmingly horny. You’ll eat this up.’ – Benjamin Law‘A blow-by-blow account of how Daniel Nour grew up to become himself. Strangely relatable even if you’re not him.’ – Shaun Micallef‘How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life is a hilarious and heartfelt memoir. Daniel’s brilliant writing is laced with a ton of richness and truth that transports the reader straight into the author’s sandals. Daniel’s voice brings a fresh and insightful perspective to Australian literature.’ – Mary Coustas’[I] am just awash with admiration … Nour’s observations, his cast of characters, his sense of the absurd, show him to be a fine writer with a serious gift for comedy.’ – Nigella Lawson
About The Author
Daniel Nour
Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian journalist and a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. His writing has featured in The New York Times, SBS Voices, Meanjin Quarterly and Eureka Street. In 2020, he won the New South Wales Premier’s Young Journalist of the Year Award. He dabbles in improv comedy.
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