One Hundred Years of Dirt: Rick Morton in conversation with Trent Darlton at Avid Reader Bookshop
Trent Dalton is in-conversation with author, Rick Morton discussing his memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt.
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.
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When
16 August 2018, 6:00pm
Where
Avid Reader Bookshop
193 Boundary St, West End Qld 4101
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When
📅16 August 2018, 6:00pm
Where
Avid Reader Bookshop
193 Boundary St, West End Qld 4101