Paradise

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  • Published 20051206
  • ISBN: 9780733316722
  • Extent: 252 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006

IN THE BEGINNING there is Eden. We all move into the same house. It is a new house. All the houses in this suburb are new. They look alike, too. Our neighbour’s house is just the same as ours except the staircase is on the left – a mirror flip. Our house is big and white. It smells of paint and my new mother.

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Jennifer Robertson

Jennifer Robertson was born in Sydney in 1984.Her short stories have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Griffith REVIEW, UTS Writers' Anthology andBest Australian Stories. Her fiction...

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