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'Gretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation with death and grief and what it means to live on, without intimate others, during a climate crisis. Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who are producing fictions.' (Introduction)
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https://theconversation.com/death-grief-and-survival-two-new-australian-novels-reinvent-the-elegy-for-an-age-of-climate-catastrophe-212768
Death, Grief and Survival : Two New Australian Novels Reinvent the Elegy for an Age of Climate Catastrophe
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- The Crying Room 2023 single work novel
- Why We Are Here 2023 single work novel
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