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Book Review: Six Bedrooms

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Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight Published by Random House (Vintage) 240 pages Short story collections are something of a livre de jour, and this is a well-deserved player in this arena, unlike this clunky metaphor I’ve dragged from the recesses of my Sunday afternoon brain. I am 100% down with this. Short story writing amazes and confounds me. The ability to get across the entirety of a character and the way they factor in the world is a true art form. Six bedrooms is about growing up. It’s the passage from childhood to teenagehood, and these ten works tell that story succinctly. I related to so many of these characters: the dodgy share house, the best friend who deserved better, the electrifying sexual awakening. This is a beautiful exploration of femininity, sexual identity, friendship, family, love and disquiet. These stories are so essay-like in quality that for several dozen pages I believed I was reading non-fiction. They have that lovely reflective quality — an adult looking back on the moments that shaped what came later. I found my adult self looking back on the mess of my own teenage years with a new kind of fondness; these are not unique […]

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