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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 All That I Remember about Dean Cola
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'The boys from back home stand beside the bed, watching her bleed onto the white sheet. 'He only said to scare her,' one of them says.

'Sidney is happily married to her firefighter husband and thinking about having a child, but her life has been marred by psychotic breakdowns. Haunted by memories of Dean Cola - the teenage crush who is an essential piece of the puzzle that is her past - she returns to the town where she grew up. Something unthinkable happened there, but is she strong enough to face it?

'A compelling portrait of mental illness, memory, and the ways that the years when we 'come of age' can be twisted into trauma.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication : 'For my daughters, Paige and Jamie'
  • Epigraph : 'We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not.' - Heraclitus

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2021 .
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      Extent: 304p.
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      • Published 1 June 2021
      ISBN: 9781922310507

Works about this Work

Possibilities of Resistance : Three Narratives of Women’s Experience Susan Midalia , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen Sasha Wasley , 2021 single work novel ; All That I Remember about Dean Cola Tania Chandler , 2021 single work novel ; Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel

'Three recent novels by Australian women deal with current and increasingly urgent political questions about female identity and embodiment. They each use the conventions of popular realist fiction to provoke thought about the causes of female disempowerment and the struggle for self-determination. Coincidentally, they are also set, or partially set, in Australian country towns, although their locations are markedly different, and their plots culminate in the revelation of disturbing secrets.' (Introduction)

Possibilities of Resistance : Three Narratives of Women’s Experience Susan Midalia , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen Sasha Wasley , 2021 single work novel ; All That I Remember about Dean Cola Tania Chandler , 2021 single work novel ; Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel

'Three recent novels by Australian women deal with current and increasingly urgent political questions about female identity and embodiment. They each use the conventions of popular realist fiction to provoke thought about the causes of female disempowerment and the struggle for self-determination. Coincidentally, they are also set, or partially set, in Australian country towns, although their locations are markedly different, and their plots culminate in the revelation of disturbing secrets.' (Introduction)

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