How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life

Name: How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781923046573
Price: 34.99 NZD
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An unreliable ethnic memoir

By Daniel Nour

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If you've ever had someone try to arrange a marriage for you … If you have so many cousins you can't remember all their names … If your parents only show love through food and unsolicited advice … If your family still thinks your 'roommate' is... Read More

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How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life

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A laugh-out-loud story of culture, family and surviving suburbia, from one of the most exciting new comic voices in Australia

Description

If you've ever had someone try to arrange a marriage for you …

If you have so many cousins you can't remember all their names …

If your parents only show love through food and unsolicited advice …

If your family still thinks your 'roommate' is 'just a great friend' …

Then this book is for you.

And if you've never experienced any of this? Well, aren't you just a little curious?

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys). He's never quite pulled off normal, but 'not-normal' is where the best stories are. Now he's made his peace with that and is ready to share his wisdom in this highly unreliable ethnic memoir.

Told as a series of snapshots from Daniel's life – from 'How to Be Born' to 'How to Die' and everything in between – this is a sharply funny tale of culture, family and trying, but not always managing, to come of age.

At turns wildly absurd, sharply insightful and disarmingly heartfelt, How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life is a fresh take on growing up in Australia.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781923046573

Publisher: Affirm Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 May 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Affirm Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

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Biography & Memoir Daniel Nour Non-Fiction

About the Author

Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian journalist and a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. His writing has featured in The New York Times, SBS Voices, Meanjin Quarterly and Eureka Street. In 2020, he won the New South Wales Premier's Young Journalist of the Year Award. He dabbles in improv comedy.