For many hours each day she is exposed to other people’s tragedies and crises, while not being able to even deal with her own. A job that only seems to exacerbate her struggle. Not able to deal with her past traumas and difficult breakup our narrator works as an emergency operator. She lives in Australia and is a descendant of John Oxley, a 19th-century British explorer who traversed the continent in the futile search of the inland sea. We never find out our narrator’s name, but we know she is a young woman just out of university. I found that they surprise me the most and bring me the most joy, by pushing me out of my reading comfort zone. Finally, after tough selection I am down to only one subscription box I decided to stick to: Books That Matter. Personal and climate crises constantly intertwine in this story and amplify one another. It is a tale of crisis, despair, being lost, but also finding one’s way in a world that doesn’t offer much consolation. Madeleine Watts wields the language firmly in her debut novel. An eerie and dreamy in one moment only to become very blunt and down-to-earth in another.
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