{"product_id":"losing-it","title":"Losing It","description":"A powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, \u003ci\u003eLosing It\u003c\/i\u003e is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.\u003cbr\u003eBut her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1998,\u003ci\u003e Losing It\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.","brand":"Moira Burke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516774547517,"sku":null,"price":21.84,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925498363.jpg?v=1787572788","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/losing-it","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}