Almost A Mirror

Author: Kirsten Krauth

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Description

Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge.


With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evokes the power of music to infuse our lives, while diving deep into loss, beauty, innocence and agency.


Filled with unforgettable characters, the novel is above all about the shapes that love can take and the many ways we express tenderness throughout a lifetime.


As it moves between the Blue Mountains and Melbourne, Sydney and Castlemaine, Almost a Mirror reflects on the healing power of creativity and the everyday sacredness of family and friendship in the face of unexpected tragedy. 'Imagine a perfect pop song covered by a hard-core punk band - Almost a Mirror will get stuck in your head in just the same way.


A fierce, elegiac dissection of nostalgia, longing and loss, the novel fearlessly explores the true Janus face of art: creation and destruction, rebirth and ecstatic annihilation, trauma and remaking.


The poised restraint of Kirsten Krauth's prose makes everything else out there seem overwritten.' KIRSTEN TRANTER


'Kirsten Krauth is a damn fine writer of amazing insight and empathy. I don't believe there's any character she couldn't get me to empathise with, any story she couldn't make me care deeply about.' EMILY MAGUIRE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENGUIN LITERARY PRIZE