Cirrus@Austlit

'Fragile Creatures, a debut from Perth-based writer Khin Myint, delivers a telling insight when the author is a long way from home, feeling vulnerable and lonely. Myint is in Syracuse in the United States. He has just walked through an impoverished Black “ghetto” and encountered a drug addict beneath an overpass. He returns to the house where he is staying and calls his mother in Perth. After listening to his experience, Myint’s mother replies, “Life is luck, Khin … we could have ended up like that if we’d been born into the same circumstances.”' 

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