Kokomo by Victoria Hannan: a millennial fiction that spans generations

Maguire, Emma (2020) Kokomo by Victoria Hannan: a millennial fiction that spans generations. The Conversation, 30 July 2020.

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[Extract] Victoria Hannan’s Kokomo – which won last year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript – is a novel about loss, exile, homecoming, family and, above all, love.

When Mina leaves her life in London and rushes home to Melbourne because her agoraphobic mother has finally left the house, she begins to realise that her idea of the past is based, like the Beach Boys’ imagining of Kokomo, on a profound misconception.

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