About Margo Lanagan: Margo Lanagan is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.
How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.
It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.
Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?
Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.
