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Sebastian Ritscher |
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ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP
A visceral exploration of adolescence and the complex ways in which maternal relationships impact masculine identity.
‘Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing weight of the water about to pummel him. He knew that moment exactly: the disbelief that what was about to happen could even be possible — the intake of breath before the flood.’
On a summer’s night in 1997, seventeen year old Sam Hudson calls his estranged aunt from the pay phone in the hospital gift shop. His mother has died and at the very time his whole world should be opening up it begins to close in on him. With no other family left, Sam is moved to the South Coast of New South Wales to live with the aunt and cousins he hasn’t seen for seven years.
He remembers his cousin Minty as the kid with the white-blonde bowl cut who used to piss in Nana Hudson’s geraniums. Now Minty is on the edge of a professional surfing career and he is still the same: tightly wound energy and labrador enthusiasm — a glint in his eye like he’d let Sam in on some genius plot to hitchhike to the Amazon or build a nuclear bomb in the garage. Sam allows himself to be absorbed into Minty’s world of adrenaline and heady masculinity, but what at first is Sam’s escape from reality soon unravels his family’s history of violence and the parts of himself he is desperate to forget.
Claire Zorn is one of the rising stars in YA fiction, her previous two books have been highly praised and awarded (see over), they have sold to Taiwan and Germany. She is invited regularly to major festivals, schools and libraries. Claire lives in Australia on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband and young family.
On a summer’s night in 1997, seventeen year old Sam Hudson calls his estranged aunt from the pay phone in the hospital gift shop. His mother has died and at the very time his whole world should be opening up it begins to close in on him. With no other family left, Sam is moved to the South Coast of New South Wales to live with the aunt and cousins he hasn’t seen for seven years.
He remembers his cousin Minty as the kid with the white-blonde bowl cut who used to piss in Nana Hudson’s geraniums. Now Minty is on the edge of a professional surfing career and he is still the same: tightly wound energy and labrador enthusiasm — a glint in his eye like he’d let Sam in on some genius plot to hitchhike to the Amazon or build a nuclear bomb in the garage. Sam allows himself to be absorbed into Minty’s world of adrenaline and heady masculinity, but what at first is Sam’s escape from reality soon unravels his family’s history of violence and the parts of himself he is desperate to forget.
Claire Zorn is one of the rising stars in YA fiction, her previous two books have been highly praised and awarded (see over), they have sold to Taiwan and Germany. She is invited regularly to major festivals, schools and libraries. Claire lives in Australia on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband and young family.
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Published 2016-05-30 by UQP |
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Published 2016-05-30 by UQP |