The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is about a dying mother, Francie, and the efforts of her adult children to keep her alive, even though she wants to die. The children have lost the ability to communicate with each other, and are out to show they have the power, at least in the case of Anna and Terzo, to keep their mother alive. While Tommy, a failed artist who was looking after Francie, just acquiesces to the will of his other two siblings. The novel is also about our dying planet, particularly from climate change, as animals go extinct We say we care, but do little to prevent the unfolding disaster. The novel is set in Tasmania while bushfires rage throughout that state and the rest of Australia. Anna is the main protaganist, a successful architect, who rather than face her mother's pain, her crap relationship with her son, or the raging climate around her, retreats into social media. Frequently forwarding articles she has not read to her friends, showing how she avoids taki...
The workings of Blogger are wondrous strange at times, Graham.
ReplyDeleteI hope you and yours are OK after the fires, and that there will be no more.
Yes Blogger is strange, now that I have set the comments to be moderated at least I get a prompt on the dashboard that I have a comment. I can't check my email to see if your comment registered because my email site has crashed.
ReplyDeleteAs for the fires, there is less smoke today. The temp is only in the high 20's, but when the heat returns and if accompanied by high winds, then the fires will flare up again.
I just read Sunday's Age and they had a map of Victoria with about fifty fires on it, 12 of them within 50kms of Wang, eleven under control and one not. I am glad I didn't read the paper on Sunday. The huge Beechworth fire didn't really get going until Sunday.