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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 The Mother Must Die
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'The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be medicated... I just want to be in Cyprus, why would I want to be in Australia...She's never had an orgasm and still lives with her parents...Anything my boys want they get...He's got a whole bank of chicks on his phone... Ever since I came to this country I been in bed...If her children can get her the drug for the MND, until then she will dream of her village in Greece...Conquests are about scoring the chicks, but he's never going to turn out like his nonno...They never talked about what her uncle did again...The money made him go mad...My mummy is sad, she keeps talking about 'court and custody', but I'm going to take the potion and make everything better...

'Bestselling poet Koraly Dimitriadis's debut short-story collection features broken people trying to make their way back to hope.'  (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2024 .
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      Extent: 220p.
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      • Publication date 1 October 2024

      ISBN: 9781923099340

Works about this Work

Book Review : The Mother Must Die, Koraly Dimitriadis Sarah Halfpenny , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2024;

— Review of The Mother Must Die Koraly Dimitriadis , 2024 selected work short story

'A collection of short stories tracking intergenerational families, motherhood and the migrant experience.' 

Book Review : The Mother Must Die, Koraly Dimitriadis Sarah Halfpenny , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2024;

— Review of The Mother Must Die Koraly Dimitriadis , 2024 selected work short story

'A collection of short stories tracking intergenerational families, motherhood and the migrant experience.' 

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