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'When novelist Mandy Sayer introduced her new husband, the American poet Yusef Komunyakaa, to her separated parents in Sydney at Christmas, 1986, she was prepared for fireworks - but not of the type she got.' (Editor's abstract)
'A personal crisis compels Beth Seligman to look at her family and her religion in a new light in this short story by Elliot Perlman.' (Editor's abstract)