{"product_id":"unbreakable-threads-emma-adams-9781760633103","title":"Unbreakable Threads: The True Story of an Australian Mother, a Refugee Boy and What It Really Means to Be a Family","description":"An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to wear thin in this place. He needs surgery for a chronic shoulder injury sustained when he was hit by a car in Kabul. Like the others in detention with him, he faces an uncertain fate, and years in limbo. Most of the people in the centre have already had their spirits broken.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen psychiatrist and mother of three Emma Adams travels to Darwin as an observer of conditions for mothers and babies in the immigration detention centres there, she expects the trip to be confronting. What she doesn't expect is to return to Canberra consumed by the idea that she must help a sixteen-year-old unaccompanied Hazara boy from Afghanistan - Abdul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe premise was simple: \u003ci\u003eWouldn't any teenage boy be better off staying with a family rather than locked behind a wire fence?\u003c\/i\u003e In this brutal and bureaucratic system, freedom was a hopeless dream. Emma and Abdul's connection, and her fight to get him out and provide him with an Australian home, a family and a future, forms an important testimony in Australia's appalling treatment of asylum seekers. Their story is a beacon of hope and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emma Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1760633100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760633103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen \u0026amp; Unwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Emma Adams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148290433279,"sku":"9781760633103","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unbreakable-threads-emma-adams-9781760633103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}