Exploded View (Paperback)

Paperback. Must a girl always be a part? How can she become a whole? In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.The family is under threat. The girl reads the Holden workshop manual for guidance. She resists the man with silence, then with sabotage. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives in the engine of the car.Spare, poetic and intensely visual, Exploded View is the powerful new novel from the author of Everymans Rules for Scientific Living and Mateship with Birds one of Australias most celebrated writers and winner of the inaugural Stella Prize. A fearless and masterful novel from the Stella Prize-winning author Carrie Tiffany, now in a new paperback edition Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.