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Portable Curiosities
Portable Curiosities | Julie Koh
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A biting collection of stories from a bold new voice. A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A corporate lawyer feels increasingly disconnected from his job in a soulless 1200-storey skyscraper. And a one-dimensional yellow man steps out from a cinema screen in the hope of leading a three-dimensional life, but everyone around him is fixated only on the color of his skin. Welcome to Portable Curiosities. In these dark and often fantastical stories, Julie Koh combines absurd humour with searing critiques on modern society, proving herself to be one of Australia's most original and daring young writers.
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mspixieears
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Absolutely loved it. Want more of this dystopian magic realism in my reading life.

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ladycarliblack
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I really enjoyed this short story collection. A bit surreal, a bit political, a bit lovely abd a bit scary. I devoured it in a few days.

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2017, Book 12 "What the eye fails to see is what prepares it to see everything else...We are defined by what we cannot see. What we see, we seal in with language, thought and concomitant feelings. I see you. We are mirrors for each other. One day, you will "see" me; your capacity for perception will have altered. My faith in a fundamental accuracy of your visualisation remains unwavering."

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