Emily Brugman Emily Brugman i(6372865 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The Islands : An Extract Emily Brugman , 2022 extract novel (The Islands)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2022;
1 1 y separately published work icon The Islands Emily Brugman , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2022 23413739 2022 single work novel

'In the mid-1950s, a small group of Finnish migrants set up camp on Little Rat, a tiny island in an archipelago off the coast of Western Australia. The crayfishing industry is in its infancy, and the islands, haunted though they are by past shipwrecks, possess an indefinable allure.

'Drawn here by tragedy, Onni Saari is soon hooked by the stark beauty of the landscape and the slivers of jutting coral onto which the crayfishers build their precarious huts. Could these reefs, teeming with the elusive and lucrative cray, hold the key to a good life?

'The Islands is the sweeping story of the Saari family: Onni, an industrious and ambitious young man, grappling with the loss of a loved one; his wife Alva, quiet but stoic, seeking a sense of belonging between the ramshackle camps of the islands and the dusty suburban lots of the mainland; and their pensive daughter Hilda, who dreams of becoming the skipper of her own boat. As the Saari's try to build their future in Australia, their lives entwine with those of the fishing families of Little Rat, in myriad and unexpected ways.

'A stunning, insightful story of a search for home.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 The Sea : Friend or Foe Emily Brugman , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Lines to the Horizon : Australian Surf Writing 2021; (p. 117-153)
1 Elevation (Ode to Frisco) i "In the Tenderloin", Emily Brugman , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , June 2016;
1 Boy's Own Adventure Tale Emily Brugman , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Sight Lines : 2014 UTS Writers' Anthology 2014; (p. 277-284)
1 Toilets and Other Big Questions Emily Brugman , 2013 single work drama
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Summer no. 4 2013; (p. 164-201)

'Scene 1

An Aboriginal woman stands at Down Stage Left. She is dressed like an

Aboriginal lady from the desert: baggy skirt, loose t-shirt, beanie, messy greying

hair hanging out the sides of the beanie, a lined face. She is not from the present.

She could be a ghost, or something else.'

1 Birden Emily Brugman , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: The Evening Lands : 2013 UTS Writers' Anthology 2013; (p. 75-84) 40 : Forty Years of the UTS Writers' Anthology 2021; (p. 246-253)
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