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.
Mon 29 June at 6:30PM
The Moat, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Join us for an exciting evening at The Moat, as we discover the voices poised to make their mark on Australian literature at the midwinter…
