Ruby, a leading character, offers a pithy swathe.
There is a troupe of college friends. Let’s start with wistful Luke, your ever-watchful reflective narrator, Christ; his shyness irritates me!
The lovey-dove Coral, our collective adhesive, a modern girl with a regency heart, whom I have the hots for; God, she is gorgeous.
Her action boyfriend, over-eager Josh, a hunk who only has sex on his mind; he is hopeful Coral will be his first!
And risqué me, the little minx; sassy, sharp, conniving, and considering getting inked as the story commences.
There is plenty of wayward troupe fun and raucous laughs through high school and college in 1970s Melbourne. Whoops, an overdose of selfishness by everyone at eighteen, and the crap hits the relationship fan as pleasure ignited by pleasure’s ignition is always a pleasure for two or more until someone muddies it with words or actions.
So adult content warning, erotic impulses are indulged. However, they generate contemplative introspection on friendship, passion, selfishness, brooding, contrition, resilience, cheating and love. And yeah, the pappus and sonder bits skein through the story as it unfolds like recall, intentional or spontaneous, rolling in and out of our minds, non-chronologically.
Sonder connects us all from a child spinning a top In Gomorrah as it met oblivion to friendships forever a word away from starting on a Monday morning once in August at 8.15 am.
Memories are blown like pappus, yet our yearnings are tattooed under our skin. From there, they will swell back. Ready, set, go, read the ripples!
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