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Panthers and the Museum of FireDescription
Complex, urgent, and fascinating, this novella about walking, memory, and writing has earned comparisons from Woolf to Knausgaard
The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney caf to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrators entire world: life with family and neighbors, narrow misses with cars, her singular friendships, dinner conversations, and work. We learn of her adolescent desire for maturity and acceptance through a brush with religion, her anorexia, the exercise of that power when she was powerless in every other aspect of her life.
The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney caf to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrators entire world: life with family and neighbors, narrow misses with cars, her singular friendships, dinner conversations, and work. We learn of her adolescent desire for maturity and acceptance through a brush with religion, her anorexia, the exercise of that power when she was powerless in every other aspect of her life.