Description
Leisl and her daughter, Else, have their own language – of scientific facts and poetic echoes, the back and forth of birds. As the country is reclaimed by rains they escape the city, returning to the Limesay’s family home on a distant peninsula. Seasons become extreme. Else adapts, thriving in the wet and warming world. In Else, Leisl sees herself – her father and grandmother – as the past becomes present, and present: past.
But flash floods are followed by more weather events, and the pair are forced further and further down the Ninch.
Else is published under Spineless Wonders’ ES-Press imprint.
Events
Thursday, 16 Oct, 7.30pm online event, details to be announced
Praise
‘A singular work deeply concerned with relationships, those we have with ourselves, our environment and our pasts.’
ROMY ASH
‘Meticulously crafted and extremely inventive … timely and prescient.’ JAMES BRADLEY
‘A testament to beloved Eastern Kulin Country, a generational saga of settlement, and an embrace of the myriad forms taken by knowledge.’
BONNY CASSIDY
About the Author
ROSE MICHAEL’s first novel, The Asking Game, was a runner-up for the Vogel and received an Aurealis honourable mention. An early extract from her second, The Art of Navigation, was shortlisted for a Conjure award and published in Review of Aus Fiction. She has published spec fic in Island, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Best Australian Stories and spec crit in The Conversation, Sydney Review of Books, Reading Like an Australian Writer. Experiments towards her new novel, Else – out in December with Spineless Wonders – have been published in international journals Antipodes and Speculative Nonfiction.
Cover Artwork: Bettina Kaiser
Cover image: Toni Roberts 2006 sun file #4
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