Sabiha's Dilemma

Sassy Saints: Book 1

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Diverse Voices, Women's Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Family Relationships, Friendship, Own Voices, Contemporary, Young Adult, and Novels

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Violence, Sex, and Profanity

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Apr 29, 2022

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292 pages

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Sabiha's Dilemma

Sassy Saints: Book 1

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Blurb

Can Sabiha play the part of the good daughter so that her mentally ill mother is accepted?

Sabiha and her mother Bahra are more than mother and daughter, they’re best friends. It’s been them against the world, with Sabiha being her mother’s carer and confidante during her periodic bipolar breakdowns.

When their extended family comes to Australia, Bahra becomes a Born-Again-Muslim to impress them, and expects Sabiha to step in line as the perfect daughter. Can Sabiha play the part of the good daughter so that her mentally ill mother is accepted back into the Bosnian community?

With the heartbreaking twists of John Green’s novels, and exquisite characters like those of Melina Marchetta’s, you'll love this hilarious, poignant, gutsy and real book.

What people are saying...

"Sabiha's Dilemma is a raw and honest story about duty and the desire to run free. A strong voice in Australian fiction."

- MELINA MARCHETTA

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Genres

Diverse Voices, Women's Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Family Relationships, Friendship, Own Voices, Contemporary, Young Adult, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Violence, Sex, and Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Sassy Saints — Book 1

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Publication Date

Apr 29, 2022

Page Length

292 pages

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Author

Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture.

Amra Pajalić won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, now re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collection The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin Press, 2022) features previously published and prize-winning stories.

She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.