Cirrus@Austlit

'Back when Mudrooroo was Colin Johnson, he was hanging out in jazz dives in Melbourne being hip and earning royalties from Wild Cat Falling. He married Jenny Katinas, who migrated as a child from Latvia, and with two other Euro-Australians they hit the road to Asia. In his last years, after many more books and much scandal, the writer recalls his youthful journeys with ‘his first wife,’ in the process revealing something of the sense of self that underpinned all his later work.' (Introduction)