‘A parent’s love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it’s pretty bottomless. It goes down into the guts of the world. But a child’s love for a parent is different. It goes up. It’s more ethereal. It’s not quite present on the earth.’

In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father’s apparent suicide, as his young family slowly implodes. At the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in 1976, a man searching for salvation must confront his capacity for violence and darkness. And in a not-too-distant future, a woman with a life-altering decision to make travels through a climate-ravaged landscape to visit her estranged father.

In Moonland is a portrait of three generations, each grappling with their own mortality. Spanning the wild idealism of the 70s through to the fragile hope of the future, it is a novel about the struggle for transcendence and the reverberating effects of family bonds. This long-awaited second outing from Miles Allinson, the multi-award-winning author of Fever of Animals, will affirm his reputation as one of Australia’s most interesting contemporary fiction writers, and urge us to see our own political and environmental reality in a new light.

One of those authors you discover and you need to find more of their books. An interesting story of three generations exploring family ties and those of fathers. Great writing and the first third of the novel was my favourite.

Wishlist tag games

thankyou so much for the wishlist tag :)
this was one of the titles to come out of the end of year best of reading lists with lots of recommendations

i need a new bookroom for the incoming before the mt tbrs avalanche on me haha - have acquired a couple of new (2ndhand) bookshelves recently...

thanks again
happy reading
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