Cirrus@Austlit

'In Gunk Baby, we join Leen just as she opens an ear-cleaning and massage salon at the Topic Heights Shopping Complex. Soon she starts to notice increasingly odd behaviour around her, and also it seems that managers of other stores are being killed off. In nonstop prose, Gunk Baby takes aim at orientalism and the Zen movement, violence, fashion, and middle-class boredom.'

Source: Publisher's catalogue.

'For the same reason people go to China, I might go to Los Angeles on February the fifth. Travel to San Francisco after, stay in the cheapest five-storey hotel with vacancy and think about Black Mountain Poets and 'The Subterraneans' which I study in school.'  (Publication abstract)

'Monk lives in Chinatown with her washed-up painter father. When Santa Coy—possible boyfriend, potential accomplice — enters their lives, an intoxicating hunger consumes their home. So begins a heady descent into art, casino resorts, drugs, vacant swimming pools, religion, pixelated tutorial videos, and senseless violence.

'In bursts of fizzing, staccato and claustrophobic prose, this modern Australian take on the classic hard-boiled novel bounces you between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the new dialect of a digitised world.

'Tip over into a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'My sister's on the couch waving her legs in the air like windshield wipers or long garlic stems. Like a Chinese dancer. I wonder if anybody's ever died from a woman's leg, or from the cruelty of a Chinese dance...'  (Publication abstract)