Signs Of Life
An international and unforgettable collection of memoir and fiction that explores experiences of mental and physical illness, and of care giving. Featuring Australian authors Al Campbell (The Keepers), Annette Higgs (On A Bright Hillside in Paradise), Sophie Overett (The Rabbits) and Sarah Sasson (Tidelines).
In a Californian cafe, a music-lover develops psychosis while drinking green tea. In a Ghanaian pediatric ward, a doctor cares for a boy with kidney disease, while definitive treatments remain out of reach. In Melbourne a mother watches as her son resists being taken to respite care.
This is not a book about death and dying. This is a book about life and how we live it. These stories reveal what is truly valued in this world, and speak to the ferocity with which we love.
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[Signs of Life—an anthology] neither denies pain nor bows down to it but instead continuously demonstrates that there is no limit to what comes after. A rich and varied set of ailment-related works. —Kirkus Reviews (Blue Tick Review)
