A 14-year-old boy in 1962 rural Australia navigates grief, friendship, and coming of age through prose poems after his mother's death.
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A 14-year-old boy in 1962 rural Australia navigates grief, friendship, and coming of age through prose poems after his mother's death.
A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.
will contain mild spoilers
Coming-of-age attraction and first love; lust and mild sensual themes
Schoolyard fights drawing blood; deaths by flood and illness
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No magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Background postwar poverty and small-town social constraints
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Grief over mother's and friend's deaths; childhood poverty
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