This is an extract from Prickly Pear: A Memoir (a work in progress). It is a creative work, a contemporary memoir, that aims to create an intimate experience of the world inhabited by the migrant family. It places the experience of being a migrant in a dialogue with the experience of being a first-generation Australian and draws out the complexities and the fluid and shifting nature of identity—especially for migrants and their children.

Keywords:
Memoir, Creative writing, Migrant narrative
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2018
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