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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Thanks for Having Me
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'Mary Anne is painfully aware that she's not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer wants to play either of those roles. One morning, she walks out of the family home in Wollongong, leaving her husband and teenage daughters behind. Wounded by her mother's abandonment, adolescent Vivian searches for meaning everywhere: true crime, boys' bedrooms, Dolly magazine, a six-pack of beer. But when Vivian grows up and finds herself unhappily married and miserable in motherhood, she too sees no choice but to start over. Her daughter Evie is left reeling, and wonders what she could have done to make her mother stay.

'Emma Darragh's unflinching, tender and darkly funny debut explores what we give to our families and what we take from them-whether we mean to or not. The stories in Thanks for Having Me are like a shoebox full of old photos: they aren't in chronological order and few are labelled. Looking at a family this way reveals things we don't see when these moments are neatly organised. Except that within these pages are a few moments you wouldn't want to hold up to the light.'  (Publication summary)
 

Notes

  • Author's note: For Cohen, Bell and Des

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: JOAN , 2024 .
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      Extent: 369p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 February 2024

      ISBN: 9781761471018

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Thanks For Having Me : Novel Review Stacey O’Carroll , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Other Terrain , no. 13 2024;

— Review of Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel

'Every now and then, a novel comes along that dares to be different and push conventional structure out the window. Emma Darragh’s debut, Thanks For Having Me, does just that with its non-linear short stories structured into a novel. A structure that succeeds in some chapters yet is disorientating in others.' (Introduction)

Suffragettes Resurrected, Maternal Ambivalence and Toxic Teens: Two Australian Novels Impress, but One Overpromises Liz Evans , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 March 2024;

— Review of Like Fire-Hearted Suns Melanie Joosten , 2024 single work novel ; Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel
Bold’, ‘extremely Fun’, ‘luminously Written’ : The Best Australian Books Out in March Imogen Dewey , Nigel Featherstone , Joseph Cummins , Steph Harmon , Lucy Clark , Sian Cain , Yvonne C Lam , Adele Dumont , Bridie Jabour , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 March 2024;

— Review of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le , 2024 selected work poetry ; The Silver River Jim Moginie , 2024 single work autobiography ; One Another Gail Jones , 2024 single work novel ; Appreciation Liam Pieper , 2024 single work novel ; Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband Kerstin Pilz , 2024 single work autobiography ; Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift David Goodwin , 2024 single work autobiography ; The Cancer Finishing School : Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience Peter Goldsworthy , 2024 single work autobiography ; Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel ; Lead Us Not Abbey Lay , 2024 single work novel ; Always Will Be : Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed Mykaela Saunders , 2024 selected work short story
Bold’, ‘extremely Fun’, ‘luminously Written’ : The Best Australian Books Out in March Imogen Dewey , Nigel Featherstone , Joseph Cummins , Steph Harmon , Lucy Clark , Sian Cain , Yvonne C Lam , Adele Dumont , Bridie Jabour , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 March 2024;

— Review of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le , 2024 selected work poetry ; The Silver River Jim Moginie , 2024 single work autobiography ; One Another Gail Jones , 2024 single work novel ; Appreciation Liam Pieper , 2024 single work novel ; Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband Kerstin Pilz , 2024 single work autobiography ; Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift David Goodwin , 2024 single work autobiography ; The Cancer Finishing School : Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience Peter Goldsworthy , 2024 single work autobiography ; Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel ; Lead Us Not Abbey Lay , 2024 single work novel ; Always Will Be : Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed Mykaela Saunders , 2024 selected work short story
Suffragettes Resurrected, Maternal Ambivalence and Toxic Teens: Two Australian Novels Impress, but One Overpromises Liz Evans , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 March 2024;

— Review of Like Fire-Hearted Suns Melanie Joosten , 2024 single work novel ; Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel
Thanks For Having Me : Novel Review Stacey O’Carroll , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Other Terrain , no. 13 2024;

— Review of Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel

'Every now and then, a novel comes along that dares to be different and push conventional structure out the window. Emma Darragh’s debut, Thanks For Having Me, does just that with its non-linear short stories structured into a novel. A structure that succeeds in some chapters yet is disorientating in others.' (Introduction)

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