Josephine Rowe

Tarcutta Wake: Stories Josephine Rowe

In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of collective memory and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited beliefs. A mother moves north with her young children who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation?s guilt in pictures of its people?s hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America?s Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has left behind.