‘I didn’t want to make public my suffering’: Janine Mikosza on reinventing the trauma memoir
It’s a profoundly strange experience to interview Janine Mikosza immediately after reading her debut, Homesickness.
The book is a meditation on the nature of memory, truth and reckoning with past trauma – and it’s presented as one long conversation in which she interrogates herself.
“I didn’t want to write a memoir,” shrugs Mikosza, who lives in Melbourne. “I didn’t want the exposure. I didn’t want to make public my suffering. And I struggled with the use of ‘I’. It’s just too personal.”
At heart and by background, Mikosza is a visual artist. In part inspired by the work of , and in spite of
