Meet Me at the Intersection
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: September 2018
Genre: Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Young Adult
This powerful anthology of short stories, memoir and poetry is an important and compelling contribution to the ‘Own Voices’ literary movement in Australia. This collection showcases stories by First Nations people, people living with a disability, People of Colour, and LGBTIQA+ individuals. Authenticity is on every page: Kyle Lynch’s voice is raw and real in Dear Mate, the story of an Aboriginal man looking for work; while Amra Pajalic’s Bosnian migrant tries and fails to negotiate suburban Melbourne with devastating honesty in School of Hard Knocks. The urgency of youth permeates: many writers revisit childhood trauma, as Yvette Walker does in her gripping Telephone, a conversation with her thirteen-year-old closeted lesbian self. Olivia Muscat’s memoir Harry Potter and the Disappearing Pages is emblematic of this anthology: as the narrator loses her sight, her need to be seen – and understood – only increases.