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Fiction
Poof! Float away
Solace in a globalised world
by A. Frances Johnson •
From whiskey priests and crazed conquistadors to sun-maddened tourists, stories of white exile in South America are staples of Western literature and film. Such tropes are productively complicated in an outstanding début novel by Rachel Morton.
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The Sun Was Electric Light
by Rachel Morton
University of Queensland Press, $34.99 pb, 224 pp
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