The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir by Anh Do

​The story is told in such a simple and personal way like it was my granny or dad telling me a story. A perfect example of how comedy and tragedy go together so well. I didn’t expect his life to be so colourful and him to be so diverse and versatile. Thank you RSL Op-Shop crew for passing this on as I had been looking for it for a quite a while.

Notes
– Dad getting enemy uniform smuggled to walk in the camp and rescue his brothers.

– Mother pronouncing ‘Pork and cheese’ instead of Portuguese.

– Dad being an animal lover with lots of animals and handy man always handy manning something.

– The family was doing so well because of his father that they had properties and farms and the kids went to one of the top private schools until one day they bought the wrong feed that killed all the animals and dad started drinking and getting violent so he left and mom didn’t let him back in. After that mom was struggling just to keep up with the schools uniform demands. A separate kit for each sport and semester.

– His entrepreneurial journey from failed paper rounds, selling fish to being a Native American selling jewellery to stand up comedy.

– Chicken embryos are mentioned as a dish.

– The way he got funding for The Finished People feature film and then writing Footy Legends.

– His dads philosophy of – There’s now and there’s too late.

– He dedicated Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ to his comedy mentor Dave Grant which he was going to dedicate it to his dad.

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