A review by skadinova
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

5.0

What a book! This novel takes you on such a journey. I felt like I was close and intimate with the town of Desperance, it's characters and special kind of madness born of trying to maintain a colonial sense of order among the wide and languid country of Carpentaria and the dreaming of both land and sea. At the same time I felt like I was soaring with the stories of Norm and Will Phantom, Elias the stranger who walked out of the sea, Angel Day and the rest of the mob from West and East of Uptown. This was an epic read that, like the river and sea so central to it, can not be pinned down but flows and weaves and paints a landscape of stories that continues to move me after closing the book. It took me a while to get hooked but once I clicked into the voice of the story I was hooked. I love Alexis Wright's writing for that reason. She is unique.