![]() ![]() Growing up in a nomadic lifestyle with her loving yet evasive mother has instilled Friday with a level of independence required to survive, but it has also left her wanting. Friday Brown is a resilient survivor – not by choice, but by circumstance. ![]() That is not to say her stories are without hope – for there is hope in Friday Brown, not in any singular event or story arc, but in the carefully-crafted protagonist. ![]() She doesn’t shy away from the heavy experience, nor does she saturate her stories with glaring signposts for optimism-soaked fairy-tale endings. Vikki Wakefield has a talent for leading the reader through heavy-handed topics. Once again, she is on the run – from the curse, from the family demons that haunted her mother, from the grief that threatens to drown her, and from herself.ĭark, gritty, raw, unflinching. After her mother falls victim to the curse, Friday finds herself trying to strike out on her own. It started with her mother, who passed on stories about the Brown family curse – generations of Brown women fated to drown on a Saturday. Lilian ‘Friday’ Brown has been on the run for as long as she can remember. ![]() And so I came to know myself-through the telling and retelling. My mother, Vivienne, doled them out as a reward or consolation, depending on her mood. They’re like old coats hauled from the back of the cupboard. My life has been told to me through campfire tales -stories that spill over when the fire has burned low and silence must be filled. ![]()
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