To prepare: tear down your calendars, disable your phone’s clock, your complete understanding of before and now and after – because to give up those constraints of chronology will help you to float from Uptown, through the narrative, en route a stream that Wright had all intentions of setting you on, into the broken heart of the land to view the dispossession of ancestral country from the elements.ĭream and reality blend, and time bends, and everything occurred even if it never happened. It does take a certain determination I think to trust the book pays off in a big way there is so much that the characters need to tell you, and Mozzie Fishman, Angel Day, Norm Phantom, Will Phantom, Joseph Midnight, Girlie, Bala and the rest of the mob are scrambling to be heard. This novel will change you, as long as you have the guts to read all the way through. I’ve just read Carpentaria again, 13 years later, and perhaps I’m only realising now how much it had, over a decade ago, gotten into the marrow of my bones. ‘Carpentaria will change you, as long as you have the guts to read all the way through.’ Photograph: Meredith O’Shea/The Guardian
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