Tracing Iris by Genni Gunn

By Genni Gunn

Commonwealth Prize nominee Genni Gunn has penned an inventive mental novel, putting at its darkish centre a incorrect yet redeemable heroine, Kate Mason, a thirty-something social anthropologist returning to the emotional crime scene she reluctantly calls domestic. whereas Kate mercilessly finds the remnants of a lifestyles affected by proof of abandonment, lies and loss, she additionally unravels the coil that binds her to Iris, the mummy she by no means knew. Iris’ haunting disappearance lurks at the outer edge of strained relatives with Joe, Kate’s taciturn father; Rose, her benevolent aunt; Angie, her early life female friend; and Ray, her not-so-estranged ex. just like the endangered cultures she researches, Kate faces extinction via touch with toxic wisdom and needs to weigh the cost of fact or threat annihilation by the hands of these she so desperately desires to trust.

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