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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 My Sister Chaos
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'You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines. I will undo you from the inside. You will feel it like waves running across your floorboards, you will feel it like water rising through your walls, you will feel it like a sudden disorientation, you will wonder what happened to your foundations.

An obsessive-compulsive cartographer trapped in the mapping of her own house. A painter turned codebreaker trying to find the lover she lost in the war. Two sisters on a collision course.

In My Sister Chaos two sisters escape an unnamed war-torn country into separate lives of exile. The cartographer is obsessed with keeping the world in order, but finds it unraveling under her own demands. Her sister, an artist, arrives unexpectedly. Her very presence is a sign of chaos for the cartographer. But in spite of this, the sister has a firm grip on the real world, and a greater connection to the past.

Chaos and order in tension provide the scaffolding for this compelling work of fiction. Presented within a world of obsession and trauma it asks whether any of us is immune to the forces of destruction.' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my sister Monica and our mothers.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Spinifex Press , 2010 .
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      Extent: 214p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2010
      ISBN: 9781742195025 (ebook : DX reader), 9781742194998 (ebook : pdf), 9781742195032 (ebook : epub), 9781876756840 (pbk.), 9781742195018 (ebook : Microsoft reader)
Alternative title: இழப்பின் வரைபடம்
Transliterated title: Il̲appin̲ varaipaṭam
Language: Tamil

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Works about this Work

Organised Chaos Teagan Kum Sing , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 24 no. 1 2012;

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
On My Sister Chaos Rhona Hammond , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , July 2011;

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Lyndal More , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 32)

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Uncharted Emotions Emily Robertson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 2010; (p. 28)

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 26 September 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 26 September 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Uncharted Emotions Emily Robertson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 2010; (p. 28)

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Lyndal More , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 32)

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
Organised Chaos Teagan Kum Sing , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 24 no. 1 2012;

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
On My Sister Chaos Rhona Hammond , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , July 2011;

— Review of My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus , 2010 single work novel
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