5 New(ish) Australasian Books for Your Reading List
Great reads you might have missed.
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Great reads you might have missed.
Advertisement Steven Carroll and Cameron Woodhead cast their eyes over a batch of books from recent times. Here, they share their recaps and reviews. Credit: Crying in H Mart, Picador, $32.99 There is an H Mart that specialises in Korean food just outside Philadelphia where Michelle Zauner, lead singer of indie band Japanese Breakfast, communes with her past. The food in all its rich variety becomes a kind of Proustian Madeleine through which she revives her dead Korean mother. This is highly evocative (smells seem to steam off the page), a vivid combination of reflective essay and memoir ...