num_pages: 130
description: Complex, urgent, and fascinating, this novella about walking, memory, and writing has earned comparisons from Woolf to KnausgaardThe narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney café to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrator’s entire life with family and neighbors, narrow misses with cars, her singular friendships, dinner conversations, and work. We learn of her adolescent desire for maturity and acceptance through a brush with religion, her anorexia, the exercise of that power when she was powerless in every other aspect of her life.  
language: English
title: Panthers and the Museum of Fire
publisher: Spineless Wonders