A review by kali
Brisbane by Matthew Condon

5.0

Ostensibly for book research, but I was drawn into this multilayered, overlapping, story of the author’s search for both Brisbane’s European origins, and his family’s. Both histories are blank — ‘books without an index’ — and he follows memories, documents, and names down gullies and across valley floors. Brisbane is a mud map, made from the surrounding environment, and washed away to be made new again.