What doesn’t kill you makes for a great story – two new memoirs examine the risky side of life
- Written by: Luke Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
Gleb Dolskiy/Pexels, CC BYIn the final pages of her memoir Datsun Angel, writer and filmmaker Anna Broinowski identifies the book as a “call-to-arms critique [of] the eighties patriarchy”. She questions whether women like herself – that is, the well-educated, sexually liberated beneficiaries of second-wave feminism – are...