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Grub

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2019 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award Winner

Tanya Vavilova

Grub brings its focus to those things we don’t see, to the people on the edges of society who might be a little “grubby”. Its setting is Sydney’s inner west, in a not-too-distant future, where the looming concerns of today (like climate change and capitalism) have come to pass, and subsistence is commonplace. The short stories range from light-hearted, in the eponymous ‘Grub’, where an obsession to cleanliness is taken to extremes, to much darker themes such as the homophobic violence in ‘Carpark’, or the “Handmaid’s Tale-type dystopia” of ‘Whipped Cream’. Peopled with odd individuals, Grub examines our humanity (and sometimes, lack of) in extreme circumstances.


Paperback, 162 pages, $22.99 + postage

Description


Awards

Winner of the 2019 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award


Praise

‘Grub steps astonishingly outside of realism to vividly imagine a queer dystopian future of sex, sadness and sly humour.’ —Moya Costello, 2019 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award judge

‘Grub examines our humanity (and sometimes, lack of it) in extreme circumstances.’ —Kalhari Jayaweera


About the Author

TANYA VAVILOVA is an emerging writer preoccupied with liminal spaces and outsider perspectives—by life on the margins. She was recently shortlisted for Overland‘s Neilma Sidney, Overland‘s Fair Australia, Alan Marshall and Katharine Susannah Prichard awards and is the winner of the Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize in 2018.

Photo credit: Josh Heath

 

 

 

 

 


Publication Details

Published as part of the SW Smalls series, celebrating 10 years of Spineless Wonders.

Additional information

ISBN:

9781925052794

Extent:

162pp

Format:

Paperback

Publication Date:

1 October 2021

Size:

H 152 mm x W102 mm

RRP:

$22.99

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