The author’s third novel to chronicle life in Sydney’s west follows a group of flawed friends trying to sustain meaning amid an ‘erosion in the world’ If any part of Australia can lay claim to being the country’s literary nexus, it is western Sydney. The wide wing of suburbia is both home to and...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/07/now-autonomy-by-max-easton-review-a-sardonic-yet-compassionate-take-on-millennial-apathy)

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