A Potent and Unforgettable Memoir by Indigo Perry
Dr Indigo Perry has just published her second memoir, Darkfall (University of Western Australia Publishing), a potent and unforgettable work of compelling writing about an adolescence lived in an Australian country town in the 1980s: desolate, dusty and bleak.
Indigo Perry’s narrative is a journey of grief, arranged around a score of music from alternative and post-punk sources, music unavailable outside cities in an age before the internet. The music, she contends, provides an imagined soundtrack, a ballast, for her isolation.
Darkfall identifies a legacy of extreme toxic masculinity and gendered violence, containing little in the way of justice. The author’s deep retrospective unstitching of her reality is presented to us with profound poetic strength, uncovering the power that resilience can unleash on an adult body. It is an act of recovery and reclamation.
You can order Darkfall from your local, independent bookshop!
See this blog for more information about Indigo’s fieldwork for her third memoir, Midnight Fire at a recent writing residency in north-west Iceland.
Dr Indigo Perry is a a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her first book, Midnight Water: A Memoir (Picador) was shortlisted for the National Biography Award. She lives with her two children in the Yarra Valley.