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Book of the Month

Exploded View

What if you were to choose a tool to love?
Not a different one every day or every week,
but the same tool for your whole life?
Father man would be a hammer. My mother would be a rag.
I would be a knife.

Exploded View

Carrie Tiffany

$29.99

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 Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living and Mateship with Birds – one of Australia’s most celebrated writers and winner of the inaugural Stella Prize.

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