A review by oanh_1
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

4.0

Excellent. Very evocative of Brisbane (& Darra particularly) of the 80s, and of growing up poor in a family struggling for so many reasons. The magical realism was done just subtly and intriguingly enough (I like fantasy and sci fi, but I don’t really like magical realism, go figure?) to not cause eyerolling until the very end.