Now’s not the time to think. Now’s the time to feel.
A taxi ride, a train trip, a family photo: in About Us, seemingly unremarkable journeys and mundane objects ripple with the repercussions of past decisions. All is not what it seems at a family wedding, a regretful father risks estranging his daughter, and a young woman is tormented by the cries of a baby that her partner cannot hear.
Reda Gaudiamo’s characters charm, chafe and confound in a series of intimate snapshots of domestic relationships. With twists shifting from the comically mischievous to the abruptly chilling, this collection is a bold slice of contemporary Indonesian literature.
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Philippa Barker works as an editor at 3dtotal Publishing, an independent publisher specializing in high-quality art books. When freelancing for the Emma Press, she edited Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women who dared to dream. She writes short fiction and prose-poetry, and has work published on Litro, Bare Fiction, and in Flash Fiction from the Worcestershire Literary Festival 2022.