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Jennifer Mills is the author of "The Diamond Anchor" and "Gone, " and is a regular contributor to "New Matilda "online magazine. She is the recipient of a Marian. Displaying a confident diversity of narrative voices and brevity in style, this collection of short stories reflects the author's experiences in Central Australia, China.
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This striking cover image drawing on Maurizio Cattelan's installation artwork Novecento , which twists our intrigue into revulsion and our surprise into dread, is just a taste of what's bubbling beneath the surface in this, the first collection of Jennifer Mills' award-winning short stories. Though many of its tales have been published elsewhere and span several years of writing, their ebb and flow here feels both natural and deliberate.
Then there are pieces that are slices of Australian life, relationships brought to life. The Rest is Weight is a collection of short stories that explores the ordinary and the surreal, the search for human connection, the weight of loneliness, with a mix of wry humor and dark longing. This collection announces the arrival of an exciting new talent in Australian fiction In short vignettes and longer stories, Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: The Rest is Weight is a short story collection by award winning, poet and novelist, Jennifer Mills. For this reviewer, the standout tales are Look Down with Me and Moth , two works of raw, disquieting horror that should probably come with a warning not to be read before bed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
One by one, the characters take us into their interior worlds, casting us loose within a universe scarred by unease. If you enjoyed her critically acclaimed second novel, Gone , about a man's gruelling journey home across the outback - which earned Mills her spot as one of The Sydney Morning Herald's best young Australian novelists for - you'll find yourself on relatively familiar ground.
Many of these stories also travel to the heart of ourselves across the belly of our country.
Mills, who lives in Alice Springs, gives us an Australia haunted by the promise and poison of its geography. In this place, which offers salvation as easily as it does madness or death, her characters find themselves on the open road.
A prison escapee hitches a ride to freedom; a middle-aged divorcee embarks on a journey of self-discovery in a weathered old campervan; a young woman sets out to find her last living relative; a trucker seeks companionship in a roadhouse as his father lies dying at home. In their search for whatever eludes them - be it resolution, connection, love, freedom, meaning or destruction - some find what they're looking for, while others are not so lucky, but nothing is ever as it first appears. Stepping off the open road, the terrain's no less unsettling. Showing her incredible range as a writer, Mills confidently moves from urban to country settings, home and abroad, teasing out connections between ordinary people and their surroundings.