AWW22 Wild Abandon - Emily Bitto

Chaired by Nicole Abadee


Following heartbreak, self-absorbed young Melbourne boy Will
flees to New York in search of adventure and forgetting. When
wild hedonism doesn’t help, and with his visa and money fast
running out, Will finds himself in Littleproud, Ohio, working for
Wayne Gage, Vietnam veteran, amateur shaman and collector of
exotic animals. Emily Bitto’s follow up to her Stella
Award-winning The Strays is a clever, complex tale, full of
opulent writing and meditations on human nature and our
relationship with the natural world.