![]() Li and Matti are both ‘unsheltered’, a term that is used in the novel to describe people who live outside the government protected living spaces. The novel is about the journey of Li after her eight-year-old daughter, Matti goes missing. It is a book I had on my to-read list for a while, but as we went into lockdown number 5000 (hyperbole here – but only slightly) in Melbourne, I really couldn’t bring myself to read a book that I felt like I was living in some way or another. Unsheltered by Australian author, Clare Moleta, was released in May 2021. These kinds of things seem to come and go on a whim like most of my reading habits of late, so who knows what my next deep dive will be. ![]() I find it strange that I have these moments where I crave a particular genre over others. I didn’t recognise that I was in this pattern until I looked over my recently read books on Goodreads. ![]() I recently figured out I have been reading books of a very specific genre – dystopian novels and climate disaster novels which one could argue are a subgenre of dystopias. Book cover of Clare Moleta’s novel, Unsheltered ![]()
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