Isobar Precinct

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ISBN: 9781988595436
Title: Isobar Precinct
Author: KASMARA ANGELIQUE

Who would you go back for?

Lestari Aris’s tattoo studio on Karangahape Road is being hammered by burglaries. A teenage runaway with a tragic past has turned to her for reasons she can’t fathom. And years after their father suddenly abandoned them, her mother is still lost in a self-medicated blur and culturally adrift from her Indonesian homeland.

Then a murder in Symonds Street Cemetery sends Lestari into the orbit of an unpredictable drug, the product of a decades-long covert clinical study. Its repercussions reveal that the separate issues in her life are in fact tightly connected. When the promise of resolution beckons, it’s through a volatile experiment that can destroy as often as it heals.

Within its vivid central Auckland setting, Isobar Precinct is an audacious and structurally playful book that challenges notions of time, explores the burden of choice when technologies alienate more than assist and asks what lengths we’ll go to save a loved one. Angelique Kasmara is a writer to watch.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09/08/2021
Available stock: 1