Blueberries

Ellena Savage's essays follow a self that is always in motion, and a body that often slips out of her control yet never stops mattering. The pieces move between a Portuguese police station, a college campus in Portland, a library in suburban Melbourne and a cold Berlin flat, watching how bodies hurt, desire, labour and rest in each place.

Savage keeps returning to incidents that were or nearly were crimes, and to relationships that were or nearly were love affairs. Each time she goes back, she examines the evidence again, rereads the documents and comes at the material from an unexpected direction. The essays cross cities, places and histories, shifting form and tone as they search for a more intimate way of getting at the truth.