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Absolutely Revolting
Fiction

Finding Theodore and Brina by Terri-Ann White

by Arnold Zable •
November 2001, no. 236

Finding Theodore and Brina by Terri-Ann White

FACP, $19.95 pb, 240 pp

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This is the tale of a quest driven by an obsession. At its heart are the Krakouers, an Australian family of five generations. The author is a descendant of the first Krakouers to settle in Western Australia. Terri-Ann White’s project is to record the gaps and silences, to piece together fragments, and ‘rescue’ family members ‘from obscurity’.

 


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Finding Theodore and Brina by Terri-Ann White

FACP, $19.95 pb, 240 pp

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