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My Brother Jaz
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A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilience In January 2024, during a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours...
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A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilience
In January 2024, during a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped.
Dark, raw, and revealing, My Brother Jaz explores how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep up.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780522880830
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Melbourne University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 113.0mm
Height: 170.0mm
Weight: 96g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Gideon Haigh has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism career. His cricket books include The Cricket War, The Summer Game and On Warne, and he has written on subjects from abortion, asbestos and architecture to incest and HV Evatt. The Office- A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Certain Admissions won a Ned Kelly Prize for true crime. Haigh has appeared widely on radio and TV and lives in Melbourne.
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