One Hundred Years of Dirt: Book Launch at Better Read

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.

Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction. One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders. Yet it is also a testimony to the strength of familial love and endurance.

Join Rick Morton for the launch of One Hundred Years of Dirt at the Marlborough Hotel, Newtown. The book will be launched by Australian author and journalist Leigh Sales.

Ticket price includes a drink on arrival. Book now.