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Book Synopsis“I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.”Misfits and Me represents a selection of Mandy Sayer’s non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy’s attraction to Australia’s misfits and outsiders, with those who live in the shadows of our society.Table of Contents Life People Power at the Ponderosa Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads The Tincture of Health Flying High: The Rise & Guise of Self-Funded Retirees Girls Gone Wild Elsie Turns 40 The Hordes Love Love & Death in Darlinghurst Sleepless in Samoa A Writer in the Family For the Love of Dog My New Orleans The Gift of Life Goodbye, Porkpie Hat Literature & Art Thea Astley Comes Out of the Shadows Sex, Lies, & Defamation In Ernest: Hemingway & The Art of the Story Satirists of Suburbia Letter to a Young Novelist Shaun Prescott: Modern Misfit

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