Losing It
Publisher: Text Publishing Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781925498363
Subjects: Fiction, coming of age; Australia, fiction
Description: In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.And Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.But her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved