Meet Me at the Intersection by Rebecca Lim

Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments. These teens have to learn a new resilience. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your head off – literally. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen through each author’s unique, and seldom heard, perspective, designed to challenge the dominant, homogenous story of privilege and power that rarely admits ‘outsider’ voices.īodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. Meet Me at the Intersection, is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina. Meet Me at the Intersection, Edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina “In this nation people assume they can write your story from beginning to end, and wait for you to fall into place on the stage that has been set, it is why every conversation scans like a hostage negotiation, with your humanity being the item that’s up for deliberation.” Rafeif Ismail, Meet Me at the Intersection When the queen asks Camellia to break the rules she lives by to save the ailing princess, she faces an impossible decision: protect herself and the way of the Belles, or risk her own life, and change the world forever.

Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets, and Camellia soon learns that her powers may be far greater – and far darker – than she ever imagined. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle – the one chosen by the queen to tend to the royal family. In the opulent world of Orleans where Dhonielle Clayton’s The Belles takes place, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle’s powers can make them beautiful. This week, we get In Deep Lit with our favourite YA reads from some of the Festival’s standout speakers. To make things a little easier, we’re compiling some of our favourite picks, genre-by-genre.

With over 400 of the world’s leading literary luminaries and public intellectuals coming together for the 2019 Sydney Writers’ Festival - and just three short weeks to get reading - honing that bedside table of books is no mean feat.

Meet Me at the Intersection by Rebecca Lim