Tarcutta Wake

By Josephine Rowe

In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of collective memory and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited beliefs. A mother moves north with her young children who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation's guilt in pictures of its people's hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America's Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has left behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702249300
• ISBN13: 9780702249303
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.6"