Published: April 07, 2019
Melissa Lucashenko’s searing story of historical theft, Jamie Marina Lau’s retro head-trip and Maria Tumarkin’s interrogative essays among the best books by Australian women this year
Young people – how they think and feel, how institutions (families, schools, clinics, courts) fail them – are a recurring theme in the books shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize.
These six surprising books – four novels, a memoir and a collection of essays – cover subjects as diverse as grief, loss, history, childhood and Indigenous resistance. They make risky aesthetic choices. Some feature dazzling experiments with language, structure and form. Despite, or, more likely, because of this, they also have a tight grip on reality.
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