Wall

A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father’ s house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist Song Dong. What she hasn’ t reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complications that she had thought, in leaving the country, she had put behind her— a tangle that ensnares her before she arrives.

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