In 1983, Erin Vincent was 14 years old. Like most adolescents, she was beginning to shed her childhood and starting to grow into a more durable, flexible adult skin. But when her parents were killed by a speeding tow truck in western Sydney, she found herself frozen in time, immobilised by shock and disbelief.
In 2020, Gemma Parker was feeling restricted with young children in Adelaide when the world entered lockdown with the pandemic. Her plans to research nihilism and literature in Paris, where she studied in her twenties, were crushed. Instead of travelling, she decided to immerse herself in Nietzsche at home, amid the chaos of family life instead.
