Nick Conrad's out of prison and out of moves.
Melbourne's west is where he lands - broke, hungover, and trying to remember who he used to be.
Footscray hums with ghosts: soup kitchens, dead ends, people clinging to purpose in the cracks. Nick drifts through it all, talking too much, drinking too fast, and trying to meditate his way out of the wreckage.
Midnight in Footscray
is a dark, funny novel about damage, delusion, and the slow crawl toward something like grace.
For readers of
Irvine Welsh
,
Christos Tsiolkas
, and
Trent Dalton
- a bruised love letter to failure, survival, and the strange beauty of falling apart.