Reading this book put COVID-19 in perspective: many people have way more painful and difficult lives.īoy Swallows Universe is a wild ride. We taste the brokenness of family dysfunction, DV, drugs and poverty (this book comes with a language warning). And as if their world wasn’t complicated enough already, drug lord Tytus Broz comes in and turns it upside down.īoy Swallows Universe is a wild ride. They’ve got a notorious criminal for a babysitter. It tells the fictional story of Eli Bell and his mute brother Augustus, two boys growing up in broken circumstances (although Trent Dalton says it’s partly autobiographical).Įli and Augustus begin the story in the care of their mum and step-dad Lyle, who are small-time drug dealers. Boy Swallows Universe is set in Brisbane’s western suburbs in the mid 1980’s.
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