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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Earth Does Not Get Fat
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'She looked like someone who has had a hard life and no money to take care of herself, like a broken woman at the end of the world, dead on her feet, skin slapped over her bones like white paint, old white paint, slightly yellow. Her shoulders and collarbones were sticking out of her skin like … like nothing. There is nothing I know that is as awful as her bones poking out of her dirty yellow chicken-skin.

'Chelsea doesn’t attend school much any more. She is carer for her mother who is sinking further into depression after a trauma, and her Grandad who has slipped into full-blown dementia. Her father is long gone; others are shadowy memories – intangible like dreams. Barely known ghosts make for strange company. Then a parcel arrives, and in it are questions—about her mother and her past self, their shared histories, and the people and place from which they’ve run.

'The Earth Does Not Get Fat is a powerful and gut-wrenching debut about intense suffering and love—fierce, searing love.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For Matthew

    For our children--

    Albert, Amelia, Grace, Henry, Matilda and Heidi

  • Epigraph: 'the earth does not get fat', Nguni saying: however many dead it receives the earth is never satiated.

    'Proverbs in Africa',

    The Wisdom of Many. Essays on the Proverb, R. Finnegan


    Mum, poor girl. She taught us compassion. She made us grow up quickly. And made us able to take on the world. - The Fighter, A. Zable.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2018 .
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      Extent: 192p.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2018

      ISBN: 9781742589572

Works about this Work

A Review of ‘The Earth Does Not Get Fat’ by Julia Prendergast Jackie Smith , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;

— Review of The Earth Does Not Get Fat Julia Prendergast , 2018 single work novel
Off Days in the Real World Tim Tomlinson , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

— Review of The Earth Does Not Get Fat Julia Prendergast , 2018 single work novel
Off Days in the Real World Tim Tomlinson , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

— Review of The Earth Does Not Get Fat Julia Prendergast , 2018 single work novel
A Review of ‘The Earth Does Not Get Fat’ by Julia Prendergast Jackie Smith , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;

— Review of The Earth Does Not Get Fat Julia Prendergast , 2018 single work novel
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