Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp review recent fiction and non-friction releases
won the Text Prize for YA fiction. It’s a bittersweet and relatable portrait of adolescence, and what an awkward comedy of errors it can be. Sixteen-year-old Abby is happy enough. Sure, her mum’s a bit of a helicopter, and she herself makes mortifying moves, like that time she kissed her cousin’s cousin at a wedding, but with her best friend Ella, she’s convinced to muddle through.
Which is why a graphic essay, such as those found in this collection, can go where words can’t, capturing life in all its inexpressible messiness and transforming abstract concepts into vividly realised images. Sarah Firth isn’t afraid to tango with the big questions of existence. How to reconcile the horror in the world with the beauty, how to find joy amid the Sisyphian labour of daily chores and mundane demands.
While his attraction to risk and later, his desire to manage it, made for a high-octane existence, it also came at a cost. As he acknowledges in this briskly told, action-packed memoir, risks also provided him with “a way out of difficult personal situations – better a flight to Bangladesh or Afghanistan than facing a tough discussion with your partner.” There is no such thing as zero risk, which makes the title of this book somewhat ironic.
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