A journalist returns to the Pilbara to reconstruct a father she barely knew.

In the mining town of Karratha she finds the transient workforce, framed by the improvisational lives built in a place defined by extraction and distance. Each detail complicates the last: the father as figure, as story, as gap. The book holds a tension between investigation and inheritance—how much can be known, and what remains shaped by projection. 

Published by Upswell in 2023, the book sits within a growing body of Australian writing concerned with regional industry, memory, and the long aftereffects of resource economies. 

Paperback, Upswell Publishing (2023). Very good condition—minimal shelf wear, interior clean and unmarked.