Angelo Loukakis (The Memory of Tides), Nadia Mahjouri (Half Truth) and Jelena Curic (Sing to Me) are descendants of migrants arriving post WW2 onwards to Australia. Renee Otmar explores with these authors the importance of family history as inspiration for charting the diaspora and integration of migrants into their adopted homeland. Have perceptions of multi-cultural stories changed over the decades? Have stereotypes successfully been challenged? And is a search for identity always the essence of these novels?

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