A young couple decides to migrate from Boston to Australia in order to escape imminent nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. After only a few short weeks in Sydney, it comes as a surprise when they meet others who have also recently moved from North America and Europe for the same reason. The Australiam press refers to them as "nuclear migrants."
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Once, while stranded for many months away from home and suffering from loneliness, I read my way through the biographical section of the small local library. How I wish I would have had the pleasure of coming to know, in that bleak time, P. Anna Johnson through her book Australia Years. The author gives the reader an intimate experience of Australia in the early 1960's. It depicts the life of a young mother breaking free of the 1950's American conservatism and political ignorance. She is self-revealing with a light touch as well as humble, loving and full of wonder at the wider world and her time in history. A lovely, timeless memoir.
We all crave stories of other people's lives--where their decisions took them, how they coped with what befell them, what they make of it years later. This urge can be satisfied with fiction as well as nonfiction but there is special meaning in reading about a real life. Anna Johnson's lovely memoir, Australia Years: The Life of a Nuclear Migrant is the story of a thoughtful and creative young woman at the beginning of her adulthood, full of idealism and hope for finding a place to live in harmony with the world and away from war. A wiser but still idealistic woman looks back, forty years later, on the triumphs and disappointments of those precious years.
This is a fascinating and courageous book with insightful glimpses into 1960s U.S., Australia, the peace movement, race relations and real life through the wise eyes of peace activist, Anna Johnson. She catapults you into a world you may have only read about, and brings alive the famous and not so famous people who have helped shape history while generously sharing her personal experiences with life and love.
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