Most of the sections detail Garner’s personal life, with musings on her sense of place, tributes to her literary friends, diary entries following the lives of her grandkids and her introspective view about growing older. The stories all stand alone and are fantastic in their brevity, as all short stories are. The book is broken up into five sections, each touching on a different aspect of Garner’s writing and life. However, as the book progresses, it becomes obvious that the stories included have a deeper, more personal meaning and are laying the groundwork for an understanding of Garner’s creative mind and her reasons for focusing on such dark and tragic events. Initially, Everywhere I Look seems to do little more than showcase the effortless beauty of Garner’s writing. Helen Garner’s latest offering gives us an insight into the world in which her most acclaimed works were written.
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