A lovely feature article by Susan Johnson about Running with Pirates has been published in this weekend's Spectrum, the entertainment and arts liftout of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, WA Today, and Brisbane Times newspapers.
Susan interviewed me about the background to the book, but also about how the story connects to other parts of my life, especially my early experiences of migration and travel, and of fatherhood.
She writes,
His misadventures as an 18-year-old stranded on the Ionian island of Corfu is intertwined with the story of taking his two teenage sons back 25 years later and becomes a deeply moving meditation on what it means to release our children into adulthood. ... [Gíslason's] boys grow up hearing stories about the Pirate and when the family returns to Corfu in 2022, it becomes a form of reckoning, and Running With Pirates the triumphant result.
The full article is available here.
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| Corfu Town, September 2022 |
