Across the Magic Line: Growing up in Fiji
Pandanus, $34.95 pb, 272 pp
Memoir
A Luminous Cocoon
by Shirley Walker •
In Across the Magic Line: Growing up in Fiji, Patricia Page comes full circle, returning with her sister Gay after an absence of fifty years to the enchanted islands of their childhood, reliving their memories and examining the very different Fiji of the present. Despite changes everywhere, the astonishing beauty of the islands remains, and the kindness of the Fijians is constant.
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