![]() ![]() We had told them a thousand times, but they never listened-as long as they lived and loved us, as long as they had split themselves open to have us, they would send us the peach in peach season. They used the winking one with its tongue out on our birthdays, they sent us long rows of the spurting three droplets when it rained. Our mothers could not stop using horny emojis. And they are often funny – genuinely funny – such as It is written in short segments, disjointed but there is a resonance between each one. In the first part of the novel, a bewildering fractured narrative has her speaking on stage across the world in Australia and Jamaica, about the internet, returning home to her husband, living life in the Portal through memes, posts, pieces and comments and likes, visiting family. ![]() ![]() The novel revolves around a woman – was she ever named? – who seems to have become an online media sensation on The Portal following a post “that said simply, Can a dog be twins? That was it. This is not a synopsis that gives much away in this… peculiar and oddly moving novel. ![]()
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