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A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complicatioins that she had thought, in leaving the country, she had put behind her - a tangle that ensnares her before she arrives.

Product details

Publisher : Puncher and Wattmann (1 April 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 220 pages
ISBN-10 : 192257161X
ISBN-13 : 978-1922571618
Item Weight : 245 g
Dimensions : 14.81 x 1.07 x 21.01 cm
Country of Origin : India

About the author (2023)

Jen Craig is the author of the novels Since the Accident and Panthers and the Museum of Fire, which was longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize in Australia and is now published by Zerogram Press in the USA (2020). Her short stories have appeared in literary journals on both sides of the Pacific, and her libretto for Michael Schneider’s chamber opera A Dictionary of Maladies was performed in Lenzburg, Switzerland. Jen holds a doctorate on transgenerational trauma, anorexia and the gothic from Western Sydney University, and is currently living on Darug and Gundungurra lands. (Source: Sydney Review Books)