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Can I read Losing Face on EtoBox?
Losing Face by George Haddad is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Losing Face about?
A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, Losing Face deals with timely issues around consent and inherited trauma. Joey is young, indifferent. Hes drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely. Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is arrested, she is desperate to save face and hold herself together. In her family, history repeats itself, vices come and go, and uncovering long-buried secrets isnt always cathartic. This gripping and hard-hitting novel reveals the richness and complexity of contemporary Australian life and tests the idea that facing consequences will make us better people.
Who reads Losing Face?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- George Haddad
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780702266836
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
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