Central Coast Reads Author Talk: Michael Burge
Fri
10
Fri 10 Oct 10:00 AM
Brentwood Village, Kincumber
100 Percent
General Admission
All Ages
60 Mins October
Author Talk: Tank Water by Michael Burge
*Content Warning: Sex scenes and homophobia*A coming-of-age story and crime thriller with a large and gentle heart.
James Brandt didn’t look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now, he’s returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge.
The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers James’s journalistic curiosity — and his anxiety — both of which cropped up during his turbulent journey to adulthood. But it is the unexpected homophobic attack he survives that draws James into a hunt for the reasons one lonely Kippen farm boy in every generation kills himself.
Michael Burge is an Australian author and journalist who lives at Deepwater in the New England region of NSW with his husband and their dogs.
