What is left when we let go of everything? When all the stories we tell ourselves run out? Three brothers, their lives traced in thirteen linked short stories as they grow up, fight, fall in love and try to let go. Mick is over it - the battle to perform. Bill's time is short, blown away by a landmine. John seeks answers in the poets, in the monasteries and high places, chasing a mystery that only stopping will reveal. And daughter/niece Haley dances the narrow path of strip clubs and motherhood, raising a child of extraordinary insight. Moult's poetic, transcendent language traces a path of renunciation, moving between the inner world and a contemporary story of the New England Tablelands and the forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania. It asks the reader to explore the very essence of being.
