Lost Boy & Other Stories

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or have been published in The Best Australian Stories, and in journals such as Overland, Southerly, Island and Griffith Review. The stories here are all charged with a human affinity that is utterly dependent on our individual circumstances. We read for instance the impact on the lives of people caused by callous colonialism of mid twentieth-century Sri Lanka and the different kinds of mystery Australian visitors to Laos might find. Then there are stories that are circumscribed by the strictures and saving grace of family which can create specific, affecting universes that can unwittingly create rents in the fabric of familial life or alienate and frighten us.