Polite Paradise

Just finished The Lucky Galah, Tracy Sorensen’s debut novel. It focuses on the lives of folks in remote Western Australia around the time of the moon landings (there’s a tracking station there). The narrator is a pet galah (a type of parrot) which gives it an unusual point of view, though it never felt gimmicky. The writing is good and the characters are well observed. There was a lot that resonated with my childhood growing up in the tropics, even if it was a bit later. Not a happy ending, more ambiguous that. Went to a talk by the author last week which was a bonus - interesting talk and the audience questions were good. May go back and reread at some point.