Blinding the Ghost's Eye

Ottavio a former refugee from Sudans brutal civil war lives in Sydney Australia; a place rich with opportunity and frustration. He has a degree in engineering but works in a meat factory. He strives to be responsible in the ways expected by his community--to look after his brothers his cousins and to get married. Yet Ottavio feels like he is failing. Barely sleeping at night he is unable to forget what the war took from him what he left behind. To prove to himself that he has settled in his adopted country he volunteers to help other migrants learn English. In class he meets Alice an Australian-born kawauja. She has a secure existence a mundane job and a need to find more meaning in her own life. But when tragedy strikes them both they change in ways they could never have imagined. Blinding the Ghosts Eye is a story of belonging--to countries and families--a story of subjugation of how we find comfort and of promises we cannot hope to keep.