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Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets— from Sylvia Plath to Anne Carson—whose dramatised confessions trigger Takolander's own. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part remains focused on the domestic, while redeeming that scene of trauma through a reinventing wit. 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Life is hard for those who still inhabit urban communities. For those who have chosen to live ‘off-grid’, it is subsistence at best, but at least there is some kind of independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA woman and her son live alone, surviving as scavengers. Even so, the boy must attend military school like all the other boys. In time, he will be shipped off with the rest of them to a distant planet – the Promised Land – to fight the colonising war that is touted as humanity’s only hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy chance, the woman meets a young man who has avoided this fate, despite his lack of physical impairment. It appears that he comes from a place of sanctuary. 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