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1 7 y separately published work icon Homesickness : A Memoir Janine Mikosza , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2022 23617566 2022 single work autobiography

'She tells me she’s returning to every childhood home she lived in, and all the memories she can’t leave behind.

'The past, she says, it kind of owns me.

'I want permission to write her life while she lives it. I want to know why she is returning to the past at this stage of her life and why she can’t escape memories from decades ago. I want to know many things.

'But nobody writes a nobody’s life, she says.

'I want to reassure her. You’ve kept so many secrets from childhood and hidden from the world for so long, I say. And you’re not a nobody.

'In this memoir, through both her words and illustrations, Janine Mikosza revisits the fourteen houses she lived in before turning eighteen. Homesickness explores how we remember, the myriad ways a child’s trauma lives on in an adult’s body, responsibility versus accountability, and the shift from silence to finding a voice. It is about finally being believed when speaking the truth, and the consequences of a decades-long silence.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Tuna Mornay Janine Mikosza , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Kenyon Review [Online] , January-February 2020;
1 The Business of Avoiding Sport Janine Mikosza , Brett Hutchins , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 76 no. 1 2017; (p. 168-175)
1 How Not to Speak Polish Janine Mikosza , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2017 2017; (p. 177-185) Electric Lit , January 2017;

'Clipped off by infinity. Poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky is describing the ends of a bridge arching over the Canal Grande on a night trip around Venice. On my reading of Brodsky’s words to Janina, she speaks of her father: she is the bridge with no ends and her father is infinity.' (Introduction)

1 The Story of Joe Janine Mikosza , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 20 no. 3 2016;
1 Outlanding Janine Mikosza , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Visible Ink 2012; (p. 3-9)
1 The Other Woman Janine Mikosza , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Page Seventeen , no. 9 2011; (p. 90-95)
1 In the First Place Janine Mikosza , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 23 2011; (p. 30-31)
1 Flight Janine Mikosza , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2011 2011;
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