For our first podcast of the year, Paula and Andrea read 'The Ninth Life of a Diamond Hunter', the first memoir by Grace Tame, 2021 Australian of the Year. 

TW:  The beginning of this podcast mentions child sex abuse. If this is a difficult subject for you, you can skip to 36:31 mins.

Books they mention:
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
Desire - Jessie Cole
The Trees - Perceival Everett
To Know You're Alive - Dakota McFaden
The Search - Geoff Dyer
Wellmania - Bridget Delaney 
Hungry Ghosts - Kevin Jared Hosein
Shirley - Ronnie Scott 
Old God's Time - Sebastian Barry 

Tv Series the mention:
Get Out

Episode 53 - Grace Tame

Jayne and Paula have an at turns, serious, heartfelt, lively and funny discussion about our latest podcast pick, Stranger Country, by Monica Tan. Also Paula has a momentary brain fail and says she was 20 in 1995 when she was in fact 22. 

Books they mention:

Stranger Country by Monica Tan
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (winner of the Kirkus Prize and short listed for the Man Booker in 2015)
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides 
Girl in the Rearview Mirror by Kelsey Rae Dimberg
Lunchbox Express by George Georgievski
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Little One by Peter Papathanasiou
Then It Fell Apart by Moby

Our book for next month is Certain American States by Catherine Lacey. Why not grab a copy and join us next month?

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Episode 6 - Stranger Country

Literary Anything, our Marion Libraries podcast where we talk about anything literary and literary anything.

Episode 53 - Grace Tame

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