![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s the guts of why the writing works so well. It has that rare bit of genius that I search for in fiction: a mixture of quirky but believable characters, a story that grows, an unusual setting (actually, I hated the setting), and writing so sharp it makes you bleed. Might be easier to read not knowing these things were based on a real life. The Vietnamese Golden Triangle heroin dealers and their hit men. The best friend, Slim, who shares his stories of Boggo Road prison and may (or may not) have murdered a cabbie. The mother he loves so much he breaks into prison to be with her at Christmas. This extraordinary story of Eli Bell growing up in suburban Brisbane amid drug addicts and gangs and criminals and the poignancy of children making sense of the mess…this is based on his life. ![]()
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