![]() Tracey Lien’s debut, All That’s Left Unsaid, winner of the highly coveted 2023 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, casts an unflinching eye on life in Australia for Vietnamese refugees and their children. A deeply moving account of living with anxiety and motherhood. Initially ambivalent about motherhood, she starts to connect with her baby by imagining it as different pieces of fruit – a raspberry, a cherry, a plum – but worries incessantly about whether she’ll be a good parent. Coral has a difficult relationship with her mother, Topaz (gemstones feature prominently as names), and suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. In Laura McPhee-Browne’s second novel, Little Plum, which follows her award-winning debut, Cherry Beach, 29-year-old Coral finds herself unexpectedly pregnant to Jasper, whom she’s met twice. A brilliant exploration of who has access to knowledge and the experience of women during wartime. She’s distracted, meanwhile, by her budding relationship with the war-damaged Bastiaan. Peggy dreams of going to Oxford but her working-class background stands in her way. The lives of twin sisters Peggy and Maude, who work in the book bindery at Oxford University Press, are changed forever by the war. Pip Williams’ The Bookbinder of Jericho, the eagerly awaited follow-up to her 2020 bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, is set in Oxford during World War I and, like its predecessor, focuses on the forgotten histories of women in the world of books. ![]() Whether your mum likes to laugh out loud or lean back and learn, there’s something here to suit all tastes. The hope is that, down the line, scientists could use genetic material to replicate residents who were lost to catastrophe, thereby ensuring “family sustainability.” Where these scientists might come from isn’t clear, but for a group selling cataclysm, the gesture seems an oddly hopeful bet on the future.This story is part of the May 6 Edition of Good Weekend. In case things do go south, Trident Lakes will offer “Navy seal Experience” self-defense training, and a vault for family DNA. “Ector offers … a very rural area,” he said, “so the likelihood of having risks like that, in the absence of specific targeting, is extremely low.” Rob Kaneiss, Trident Lakes’s chief security officer and a former Navy seal, told me that violence “seems to be the unfortunate trend in the U.S.” He believes the community’s location will prove to be ideal under the circumstances. “Typically our sales are going to conservatives, but now liberals are purchasing,” says Lynch, the Rising S CEO. The presidential election has brought new faces into the fold, namely liberals (who also contributed to a record number of background checks-an indicator of gun purchases-on Black Friday). Others have newer fears: climate change, pandemics, terrorism, far-left and far-right extremism. Some customers appear to be motivated by old anxieties, recently revived-the threat of nuclear war, or a national-debt default that leads to unrest. ![]() Jeff Schlegelmilch, the deputy director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, told me that the luxury-bunker trend is “not just a couple of fringe groups there is real money behind it-hundreds of millions of dollars.” But why are wealthy people buying?
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