For fans of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, Cole’s second memoir deals with the pain of an ambivalent courtship – while exploring her visceral need for love
Composite: Danika Cottrell, Text PublishingComposite: Danika Cottrell, Text Publishingfirst memoir, Staying, recounted an adolescence “bookended” by the suicides of her half-sister and father, and
the aftermath of those appalling losses. In many ways, Desire: A Reckoning picks up where that left off. It charts Cole’s long-distance courtship with an ambivalent older man, as the “fortress” of her childhood rainforest home in the northern rivers of New South Wales is besieged by floods and fires, and her sense of safety is shaken once again.
Cole’s focus is physical to start with: how she is “skin hungry”; the subtle barometric shifts that occur when we clock someone’s attention, mutual or otherwise – and the shifts in power that go with it.
Her discombobulating encounters with “the man I desired” are told in a sequence of intimate, confiding vignettes. There’s a similar sensual hauntedness, an emotional nakedness, to that in
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