Read THE WATERS by Bonnie Jo Campbell if you love beautiful prose, wetlands, complicated families, the poetry of women, the violence of brutes, mathematics, babbies, cures, rattlesnakes, towns wrecked by capitalism, nesting dolls, moving tenderly, and secrets never told (until they are).
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The latest novel from Garry Disher is another masterclass on rural noir writing, with current day issues elegantly spun out in the middle of the day to day drudge of drought and heat.
https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/garry-disher-mischance-creek-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/
Novels that behave are products. Sustenance refuses obedience.
Paratext becomes a warning. Prose swerves from rural realism to horror to uncanny SF. Genre bends until it snaps. Closure is denied.
Why? Because coherence itself is suspect. Literature should hand you grit, not smoothies.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/25/sustenance-experimental-reflections/
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