Hopeless Kingdom

**Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2023** **Winner, Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2021** Akita's family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and her parents. Just when eight-year-old Akita is feeling settled at her new school and community in Sydney for the first time in her life, her parents decide to relocate to Geelong to be closer to their Sudanese re