In My Mailbox - Gail Jones and Evie Wyld

In My Mailbox – Gail Jones and Evie Wyld

In My Mailbox is a weekly feature hosted by The Story Siren.

Although I have no idea when I am going to get around to reading these new arrivals, I couldn’t resist a 2 for 1 offer at a bookstore a few doors down from my office….

DREAMS OF SPEAKING by Gail Jones

‘We must talk, Alice Black, about this world of modern things. This buzzing world.’ Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention. His own knowledge begins to inform her writing, and these two solitary beings become a mutual support for each other a long way from home. This novel from Man Booker longlisted author Gail Jones is distinguished by its honesty and intelligence. From the boundlessness of space walking to the frustrating constrictions of one person’s daily existence, “Dreams of Speaking” paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone. (The Book Depository)

AFTER THE FIRE, A STILL SMALL VOICE by Evie Wyld

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents’ mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family’s beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbors and their precocious young daughter, Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own. A girl is missing, and when Sal too disappears, suspicion falls on Frank. Decades earlier, Leon tries to hold together his family’s cake shop as their suburban life crumbles in the aftermath of the Korean War. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War. (The Book Depository)

Both novels are by Australian Authors.

What books came into your home this week?

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