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‘Arkie’s Pilgrimage to the next Big Thing’ by Lisa walker

Arkies Pilgrimage   Author Lisa walkers previous books were Liar bird, and Sex , Lies and Bonsai. Having dealt with the issue of National Parks and Surfing ( in that order) she focussed her gaze on an inescapable feature of the Australian rural  Landscape – Big Things – as in the Big Pineapple, the big Avocado, the Big Banana and not to forget – The Big Prawn! While  this  promotional obsession to construct giant objects is  not exclusive to Australia, we do seem to have embraced it with enthusiasm. At least we did  for a while, as Lisa’s protagonist Arkie  finds in her  pilgrimage to find ‘herself’ by visiting these often forgotten and neglected structures, many were not built to last forever. But a pilgrimage is not about where you have been, it is about where it allows you to ‘go’ – as in what it reveals about yourself and your relationship to others. lisa 2014 crop

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