How to be Australian

An Outsider's View on Life and Love Down Under

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

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Affirm Press
26 May 2020

Memoirs; Biography - Australian

When Ashley persuades her new husband Steve to leave snowy Canada and join her for a year Down Under, she looks forward to an easy transition. After all, Australia's just Canada with more sunshine and strange animals, right?

But they soon discover things aren't so simple. Steve struggles to settle and Ashley fears he will come to regret both the move and the marriage - especially after she loses her wedding rings on Bondi Beach. Baffled, homesick and increasingly anxious (in a land renowned for 'no worries'), she is preparing to return to Canada when Steve shockingly announces that he wants to stay in Australia. Forever.

For the sake of her marriage and her happiness, Ashley must find an Australia she can belong to: she decides to travel the country, learn its history, decode its cultural quirks and connect with as many residents as she can meet. How to Be Australian is a remarkable memoir, at once familiar and faraway, that shines a fresh, funny and fascinating light onto the country we think we know.

By: Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Imprint: Affirm Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 409g
ISBN: 9781925972801
ISBN 10: 1925972801
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 26 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a Sydney-based author. Her debut book, My Name Is Revenge, was a finalist in the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Westerly, the Australian, the Big Issue, and Kill Your Darlings. She has a Master of Research in creative writing and is a Varuna alumna. How to Be Australian received a 2017 fellowship from the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre.