With The TigerProduct Description With the Tiger is both an imitation of and a tribute to Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel, The Razor's Edge. Maugham's characters Americans in Europe between the wars return as Australians in the late 1970s: the charismatic young Larry; his high school sweetheart turned high society hostess, Isabel; her husband, the real estate tycoon Gray Maturin; Isabel's uncle, the incorrigible, iniquitous Elliot Templeton; and the narrator, a gay

someone will be dead

personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one's self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult

Reinhold Smits

the best-selling author of Everybody Behaves Badly

What is not commonly known is that it is much more than ‘living in the present’ as popularised in the West

crossing the boundaries between emotion

Noomi realizes that her worst fears have come to pass - she is trapped in the same cycle of self-destructiveness as her mother

Despite extreme circumstances

and ecological crises

and up-to-date lists of TV

But it's not her story alone she is quick to say

and discard her afterward