Paradise

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  • Published 20061103
  • ISBN: 9780733316722
  • Extent: 252 pp
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Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006

IN THE BEGINNING there is Eden. We all move into the same house. It is a new house. All the houses in this suburb are new. They look alike, too. Our neighbour’s house is just the same as ours except the staircase is on the left – a mirror flip. Our house is big and white. It smells of paint and my new mother.

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About the author

Jennifer Robertson

Jennifer Robertson was born in Sydney in 1984.Her short stories have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Griffith REVIEW, UTS Writers' Anthology andBest Australian Stories. Her fiction...

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