Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her essays have appeared in The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Two centuries earlier, her forefather John Oxley, traveled the expanse of Australia in search of water. Her self-destructive patterns mirroring the disasters around her. Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in New York since 2013. The Inland Sea by Madeline Watts In present day Sydney, crises blur together for an emergency telephone operator.
Desperate and adrift, she yearns for change.īuilding to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis, The Inland Sea is a fierce and beautiful novel about the search for refuge in a state of emergency. Her personal life is buckling under her self-destructive obsessions - she drinks heaily, sleeps with strangers, wanders the streets of Sydney at night, and pursues a disastrous affair with an ex-lover. She works as an emergency dispatch operator, trapped in constant crisis as fires and floods rage across Australia. A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying worldĪs she faces the open wilderness of adulthood, our narrator finds that the world around her is coming undone. Over the course of the twenty-first century, global sea levels are projected to rise between about 2 and 7 feet, and possibly more.
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