At the beginning of each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
Memoir, Ultimo Press, $32.99
Perhaps all memoir writing necessitates a personality split, as the author tries to wrestle the subject down. That split is made literal here, in a heartbreakingly honest rendering of both the process and the story. –In children’s literature, absent parents abound. They’re away at war, they’ve gone to work while the kids run amok, or they’ve died, leaving orphans to be sent to the country, or to live with aunt Polly, or to become wizards.
His third novel, Here Goes Nothing, is perhaps the clearest demonstration of Toltz’s skills as a humorist: from the opener we know our narrator, Angus Mooney, is dead, trapped in a bureaucratic afterlife making umbrellas in order to fund trips back to this Earthly plane to haunt his former home, where his pregnant wife and the man who murdered him still live.
But some of what Pinkerton covers as modern phenomena, like kink parties and polyamory, will not seem all that new or noteworthy, regardless of when the reader was born – and any attempt to make conclusions about an entire generation is bound to feel unconvincing. As a millennial, I did not see myself in this book about millennials, nor did I feel it was written for readers my age – but Heartland remains undeniably interesting.
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