AustLit

'At first, The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen seems to exist in the liminal space between awake and asleep; the space where your psyche turns the familiar sound and scene around you into something altogether unfamiliar; the space where love and death coexist in the same ghostly breath.' (Introduction)

'Snake Like Charms is a debut book that writhes in the reader's hand, lively and lovely. My pen underlined so many passages like a skin, black python stretching across the page. The book explores family and relationships, self and identity, culture and country through the snake motif and Joy's languid use of language.' (Introduction)

'In a town living in the shadow of a buzzing power plant, everything gets drowned out.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.