The second-last edition of our summer-reading series sees us return to Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Big Yengo’, from Griffith Review 42: Once Upon a Time.

In this piece of short fiction, a father is moved to see his son, now a man, so at home on the land – proof, it seems, of his having come of age. But before long he finds himself plunged into grief for a very particular past: for what was, and for what might have been.