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Clare found comfort in walking – every night she walked the quiet and lonesome streets of Myamba, two hours north of Melbourne until almost dawn when she returned home to sleep. Her thoughts were constant; the main topic in her head was the closing down of hundreds of towns; of rural communities throughout Australia. The devastation was taking over huge areas with people deciding their own ways of coming to terms with what was happening to them.
Robbie and Ella loved each other but often their jo ...more
Robbie and Ella loved each other but often their jo ...more
I loved parts of this - the climate dystopia is terrifyingly plausible and the corporate takeover of government already feels basically complete - but I got a bit frustrated by it in the end. The magic realism elements felt out of place to me, and the story centred itself on a fairly privileged group of people without really engaging much with the stories of any of the individuals whose suffering formed the backdrop to the story. There's a lot to like here - Abbott's imaginative and writes well,
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I loved this novel, a broad but intimate apocalyptic future in regional Australia.
Amid rampant inflation, water shortages and mysterious bones falling from the sky, the Australian government enacts the Energising Rural Australia policy - A New ERA! - and starts closing down country towns, forcibly shifting the inhabitants into ever more overcrowded cities.
Desperation, waves of refugees and overcrowded, murderous, internment camps are the new normal. But the devastating vision is lifted by rema ...more
Amid rampant inflation, water shortages and mysterious bones falling from the sky, the Australian government enacts the Energising Rural Australia policy - A New ERA! - and starts closing down country towns, forcibly shifting the inhabitants into ever more overcrowded cities.
Desperation, waves of refugees and overcrowded, murderous, internment camps are the new normal. But the devastating vision is lifted by rema ...more
Feb 20, 2018
Betsy
marked it as looks-interesting
May 08, 2018
Gaynor
marked it as to-read
