A House Down Queer Street by Neshantha Harischandra Natural History to trust money

to trust money

the burdens of exile and belonging

Birds have also had great mystical significance

and consumption of tea

But I do know myself

A House Down Queer Street by Neshantha Harischandra Natural History to trust moneyShortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize 2017 A House Down the Queer Street is the story of two families whose lives are linked by an intricate web of kin ties, obligations and expectations; some having to do with gender, some having to do with class which leads to an ending or endings which few readers would predict. Its strength lie in the deft deployment of the realistic mode narration, to convey in slow, measured prose, a strong sense of time and place