Abakada
The language of everything
$28.86
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2027
Summary
‘Every few years, since legal adulthood, I’d moved cities or countries. I wondered if this was an adaptive response to colonialism and diaspora, encoded in my miscegenated, globally interwoven DNA. Or maybe I had cultural ADHD. Or maybe, you know, commitment issues.’
Lara Day remembers the exact moment she stopped speaking Tagalog, her Filipino mother tongue, because her English father couldn’t understand her. From this moment of loss, Abakada takes a spiralling journ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781764555852 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1764555856 |
| Author: | Lara Day |
| Publisher: | Pink Shorts Press |
| Imprint: | Pink Shorts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 210mm x 297mm |
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Lara Day
Lara Day is a reformed journalist and coach, and has written for publications across the globe. Born and raised in Hong Kong to a Filipina mother and an English father, Lara now lives on Kaurna Country in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, two children and two Hong Kong street cats. She really, really loves crying.
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