Amanda Curtin imagines fragile acts of care among the homeless in Paris

By Caitlin Macdonald, Researcher, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney

Amanda Curtin’s Six Days opens with a girl dying in a Paris cemetery in 1991, during one of the coldest winters the city has experienced in years. More than two decades later, another vulnerable figure emerges: Daniel Despard, an Australian expatriate, recovering alcoholic and building caretaker. His carefully regulated life is disrupted by the arrival of a young homeless girl.

What follows is a novel concerned with homelessness, addiction,…

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