How to preserve a turnip

And other whispers in my genes

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  • Published 20171030
  • ISBN: 9781925498424
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

On the first Sunday of 2019, Griffith Review returns to Krissy Kneen‘s prize-winning novella, ‘How to preserve a turnip: And other whispers in my genes’.

Published in Griffith Review 58: Storied Lives as a winner of The Novella Project VI, this creative non-fiction novella sees Kneen attempt to unravel the secrets that generations of her family have kept, unpacking her own body: a box of magical secrets inherited from her grandmother and her grandmother’s grandmother.

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