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    ‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’: Featured Fiction from Jamie Marina Lau

    by Editor Sep 09, 2020 4 minutes

    In our latest edition of featured fiction—curated by our own Carolyn Quimby—we present an excerpt from Jamie Marina Lau’s debut novel, Pink Mountain on Locus Island.

    Shortlisted for Australia’s Stella Prize, the novel was praised by Kirkus as “hallucinatory…impressionistic…Hypnotizing and inscrutable.”

    SOLOMON’S SINK

    An allowance is not the same as approval. When I was nine, my dad handed me five dollars every beginning of the week and then got mad at me at the other end of the week for spending it. This happened for four years until he quit his job at the university.

    Nothing was gained under the sun, nothing was gained under the

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