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Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life by Rozanna Lilley

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June-July 2018, no. 402

Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life by Rozanna Lilley

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 228 pp, 9781742589633

Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life by Rozanna Lilley

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June-July 2018, no. 402

At the centre of this book is Oscar, the son of Rozanna Lilley and her husband, Neil Maclean, and Oscar’s particular way of encountering the world. Unpredictably (by most people’s standards), he is indifferent to some things, sharply affected by others. His fears – of the outdoors, of night and the watching moon, of dogs, for example – are frequently disabling for him and unnerving for other people. He also has an endearing capacity for humour and theatricality. For instance, inspired by his reading of the Mr Men series (supposedly good for helping him to understand different emotions and personalities), he responds to his mother’s reproaching him for greed at a hotel buffet. ‘He looks me up and down. “Mum, you are Miss Perfect,” he comments neutrally. “Who am I? Mr Greedy or Mr Messy?”’

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