Friends & Dark Shapes

Friends & Dark Shapes
Kavita Bedford
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 135mm - 192pg
27 Apr 2021 US
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9781609456641
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The city I grew up in was elastic and belonged to me and my friends as we stretched it through the nights. We knew its contours, and when something new arrived we were among the first to be a part of it. Everything was powder pink and bendy and shiny for us. We hadn' t had time to build a lasting memory around some fixture and then watch that time fall away from under us. A group of friends moves into a share house in Redfern. They are all on the cusp of thirty and big life changes, navigating insecure employment and housing, second-generation identity, online dating and social alienation-and one of them, our narrator, has just lost her father. How do you inhabit a space where the landscape is shifting around you, when your sense of self is unravelling? What meaning does time have in the midst of grief? Through emotionally rich vignettes, tinged with humour, Friends & Dark Shapes sketches the contours of contemporary life. It is a novel of love and loss, of constancy and change. Most of all, it is about looking for connection in an estranged world.
' Such a vivid geography: this is a work of smart intensities, witty sorrow and wise coming-to-terms with grief. Astute, wry and beautifully tender. ' * Gail Jones * ' Friends & Dark Shapes is an achingly relatable, thought-provoking and compelling debut, full of gorgeous sentences that stopped me in my tracks. . . I loved every minute of it. ' * Ewa Ramsey * ' Friends & Dark Shapes smells and feels and tastes like Sydney, like grief, like the limbo and the lucidity of your twenties. Bedford' s poetic yet sparse, fearless yet gentle prose makes this a book to be savoured. ' * Laura McPhee-Browne *
Kavita Bedford is a Sydney-based writer. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, the Guardian, Griffith Review and elsewhere. She has an MA of Applied Anthropology from Macquarie University, and was a recent Churchill Fellow. She works and teaches in media and global studies.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781609456641
Published: 27 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Europa Editions
Publisher: Europa Editions
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 192

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