Anna Krien - Act of Grace

Join us as we celebrate the release of Anna Krien's stunning debut novel Act of Grace, an electrifying story of fear and sacrifice, and what people will do to outrun the shadows. 

Anna is in-conversation with Mel Kembrey, deputy editor of Spectrum, where she writes about books and arts. 

About the Book

Aspiring Iraqi pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Australia, decades later, Gerry is in fear of his tyrannical father, Toohey, who has returned from the Iraq War bearing the physical and psychological scars of conflict. Meanwhile, Robbie is dealing with her own father’s dementia when the past enters the present. 

These characters’ worlds intertwine in a brilliant narrative of guilt and reckoning, trauma and survival. Crossing the frontiers of war, protest and reconciliation, Act of Grace is a meditation on inheritance: the damage that one…