Published: July 15, 2021
It’s an ambitious undertaking to interweave literary fiction and magic realism, but Overett executes it beautifully in this deliciously unsettling debut
“Can you draw someone from memory?”
This question repeats through the pages of Melbourne-based author Sophie Overett’s charmingly odd and hypnotic debut novel. It carries meaning both literal and metaphorical: college art teacher Delia Rabbit, reckoning with the recent disappearance of her teenage son Charlie and the past disappearance and death of her sister Bo, takes to painting to remember and preserve them.
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