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Shady Cosgrove, Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong

A therapist reckons with her own trauma, in the shadow of Australia's collective shame

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The plot of Jacinta Halloran’s fourth novel Resistance is straightforward. The Agostino family have stolen a car and driven into the desert. As part of their court-mandated sentence they must attend sessions with family therapist Nina.

The reader is privy to these sessions, as well as sessions between Nina and her supervising therapist, Erin. With her, Nina discusses the Agostino family, as well as her own personal history.

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