Janette Turner Hospital

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

These internationally-acclaimed stories chart the author's nomadic trajectory from Deep North Australia to America's Deep South.

In these prize-winning stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss—lovers meeting again in midlife re-experience, through the memory of photographs both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house, and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears, desperate to reclaim what he has lost. Hospital's characters oscillate between estrangement and intense connectedness, between a permanent sense of dislocation and a yearning to belong.

"A tour de force...there's no question this book marks Turner Hospital as one of the genre's finest exponents."—The Melbourne Age, Australia

"For twenty years Janette Turner Hospital has been creating sensuous, speculative fictions about the experience of dislocation....Stories develop like poems or meditations.—The New York Times