Book 1 of 2023
One Hundred Years of Dirt by @squigglyrick (2018 Melbourne University Press)
This is a powerful memoir, and to quote the blurb because it says everything, a meditation on anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders.
I picked it up as research for a current WIP examining masculinity, and it does this with precision, but it offers even more in terms of understanding class and privilege in Australia, and how the insidious barriers of poverty impact a person so much.
It is precise in it's language which gives an edge to the understated brutality of domestic violence, poverty and sexuality.
5 cadet journalists out of 5
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